Fight for Peace Sports & Education Centre in Brazilian Favela provides real alternatives to violence, crime and the drug trade to youth through sports, education and access to the formal job market.
In Rio de Janeiro, gun-related incidents are the primary cause of death for young people. In the favelas, children as young as 10 are employed as armed soldiers, lookouts, drug sellers and carriers between warring drug factions. Through sport and education the successful Fight for Peace Program now helps 40 young people tackle the problems they face daily living in a community where crime and armed drug faction employment are often the only real alternatives to a life of poverty and exclusion.
Build a new sports centre in the community on donated land to serve 110 more children in a safer space. The building will include a gym, weight room, training rooms, an equipped classroom for students and a computer room with 10 donated computers.
Sport as a lifestyle, a culture of peace, education for a future and access to the work market for more youth. Monthly sporting events and paid gym memberships offered to community will provide partial financial self-sufficiency to the program.
I see how boys get into drug trafficking because they’re not at school and just bumming around. There’s a lot of peer pressure too. I’ve done a lot of bad things in my life, but now I’m a role model.
- Rodrigo da Silva, 23, 2 years later Rodrigo is also a paid staff member
Total Funding Received to Date: $125
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $125 . The original project funding goal was $70,000.
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Thanks to 1 donor like you, a total of $125 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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