LANKAStreet Soccer is a project of Stefan Werly to support children from Sri Lanka in the form of involvement in leisure activities. LANKAStreet Soccer focuses particularly on effective improvement of the life situation of children affected by poverty and war in Sri Lanka as well as on bringing closer together the ethnical groups through football and events. For this purpose LANKAStreet Soccer cooperates with various local organizations and social workers.

 

With your donation you 100% support the project, including the everyday work of volunteers in Sri Lanka. The funds within this project cover different needs, mostly for training equipment, such as balls, caps and football shirts, the transportation of children to the training and tournament venues and also for donations in kind like, for example, football boots, meals etc.  

 

LANKAStreet Soccer provides, first of all, the quality of leisure activities, sports, art and music after the days at school in the entire Sri Lanka, independently of the ethnicity. We act based on the conviction that psychosocial activities contribute a lot to alleviation of the latent effects of cruel experiences gained by these children due to poverty and war.
The LANKAStreet Soccer trainings and tournaments carried out by us enable the children to express themselves in a new way, to get to know a different side of them, to remove mental blocks and to promote a natural spiritual development. 

 

Through football the values like fairness, team spirit and solidarity are instilled in them in a playful way. With just a very limited access to sports facilities in the regions of Sri Lanka, the children and teenagers will not only be offered a leisure time occupation but they will also be given vital values and competencies to take along.    

 

Every child participating in this project will be decorated with the LANKAStreet Soccer Award and will receive a personal picture book. 

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Activities:

 

1. Tactical and common football training

2. Workshops dedicated to playing football (dealing with the football in general, playing in danger zones (streets, mine zones), accident prevention, team building, joy of the game)

3. Participation in external football tournaments

4. Educational excursions

5. International closing tournament in Galle with a Swiss junior team from underprivileged social layers