Road to Lyon - Representing Cape Verde in the Streetfootballworld Festival 2016

Delta Cultura Cabo Verde (DCCV) intends to participate in the streetfootballworld festival the biggest festival using the power of football for social change. Festival 16 is an official event of UEFA EURO 2016 and will take place in the heart of Lyon from June 28 to July 7.

The streetfootballworld Festival 16 will the biggest ever ‘football for good’ festival and is an official event of the UEFA EURO 2016. The stars of the festival are the young people from disadvantaged communities all over the world who have earned their place on the pitch through their commitment to changing the world through football.

The festival will take place in the heart of Lyon, France from June 28th to July 7th 2016 and will feature a street soccer tournament played by football3 rules designed to promote tolerance and youth leadership as well as an educational and cultural exchange programme.

The Festival 16 will involve more than 600 people celebrating football for good including 50 countries, 80 delegations, 320 players, 500 participants, 100 staff members, 50 volunteers, ambassadors of football for good, diplomatic community, sponsors and partners.

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Delegação do festival da streetfootballworld 2016

About the author

Delta Cultura Cabo Verde (DCCV) is a nonprofit organization created in December 2002 with its headquarters in Tarrafal City, Santiago Island, Cape Verde.

We are a small association with big projects. We believe in the power of education as a basis for a better future. We advocate for people- and cultural exchange.

We understand education as an umbrella term for: creativity, free personality development, perception of happiness, communication, awareness for historicity, responsibility for oneself and others, ability for judgment and critique, ability for compromises and peace, general knowledge.

The name Delta Cultura stands for three independent associations. Delta Cultura in Cape Verde, Austria and Germany.

Delta Cultura Cabo Verde is the carrier association of the Child- and Youthcenter Tarrafal and is in charge of conception, managing and realization of the projects in the Center.

Our drive is the fight against the unequal distribution of prosperity and opportunities and the declaration of these circumstances to the norm.

We do not want to spread, support or force upon ways of life, ideologies, dogmas, religions, substitute religions or economic systems with our work. We want to help people to be able to make their own decisions.

VISION

DCCV eradicate poverty through education.

We convey to children and young people's enthusiasm for learning. Upon receiving their potential, encouraging them, we make an important contribution to the self-determined and conscious action, thus contributing to social transformation.

MISSION

The core competence of DCCV is education.

We develop training programs for children and young people, in order to recognize potential and promoting them.

Our education programs value the natural curiosity and capabilities of each in order to prepare them to meet the challenges and enable them to make decisions.

In the implementation of education programs in bet tools now as free access to information, art, football and playful elements.

Our support in solving challenges that the school imposes, contributes to personal development and is a valuable aid for families.

Budget and due dates

The period of the campaign is 60 days.

The budget presented is exclusively for acquisition of six plane tickets PRAIA / LYON / PRAIA which has a cost of 5,000€.

We just need your help for this six plane tickets because all the expenses during the festival will be covered by the festival organizers, in this case streetfootballworld and sports dans la ville.

That's why we count on you to help us in raise these six (6) tickets as far in advance.

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