‘We really can help change the world, end poverty and homelessness,” organiser Mel Young says. “All we have to do is take a little round ball and start kicking it around.”
And for the nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants, who kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament in Cape Town this weekend, there is indeed great self-belief. For them, society’s most marginalised, this is a chance to make a new start in life.
President Thabo Mbeki and thousands of spectators gathered in the centre of the Mother City to salute Sunday’s parade of flag-waving teams from 48 nations as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Britain, Sweden, the United States, Liberia and Zimbabwe. Yet, while it is a completely global event now, the idea for the street soccer tournament was born in Cape Town in 2001 after an international meeting of editors of street newspapers like the Big Issue, which is sold by the homeless in Britain, Australia, Namibia and here… Full Story - The Star
And for the nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants, who kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament in Cape Town this weekend, there is indeed great self-belief. For them, society’s most marginalised, this is a chance to make a new start in life.
President Thabo Mbeki and thousands of spectators gathered in the centre of the Mother City to salute Sunday’s parade of flag-waving teams from 48 nations as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Britain, Sweden, the United States, Liberia and Zimbabwe. Yet, while it is a completely global event now, the idea for the street soccer tournament was born in Cape Town in 2001 after an international meeting of editors of street newspapers like the Big Issue, which is sold by the homeless in Britain, Australia, Namibia and here… Full Story - The Star
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