Help children play in a safe place!

On 28^th September, Tiempo de Juego run the 5^th edition of the 5Kzuca, a 5K race that raises awareness about teenage pregnancy.

The event is a space for social integration, where more than 500 children, young people and adults from different backgrounds had the opportunity to share experiences and create shared memories around themes that require special attention in order to achieve social change.

The main objectives of the event were: 

• To promote the transformation of negative images associated with life in Altos de Cazucá through an untraditional running route around the neighborhood.
• To promote sports and healthy lifestyle habits as admirable lifestyle choices
• To encourage the practice of activities during free time, especially athletics
• To be advocates and promoters of solutions to social problems that affect children and young people in the country, such as teenage pregnancy.

Since 2018, this strategy has been developed within the framework of the Andean Week, organized by the Colombian Family Welfare Institute for the prevention of teenage pregnancies. Tiempo de Juego is committed to this theme and promotes it through events such as the 5Kzucá.

We had the support of different governmental and private platforms, who committed to tackling teenage pregnancy.

Runners from around Bogotá signed up for the race and ran the first 4 kilometers on their own around the neighborhood of Cazucá. The last kilometer they ran holding hands with a child from Tiempo de Juego to show their support in achieveing their dreams and having a better future!

 The race had very positive results within the community and amongst the children. Tiempo de Juego was able to become better known and, at the same time, it was able to raise awareness about teenage pregnancy.

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• https://tiempodejuego.org/

One of the Tiempo de Juego’s dreams was to build a soccer field in vulnerable sectors of Colombia. The organization was launched thirteen years ago, by Andres Wiesner, a Colombian journalist who, one day, took the fateful step of kicking a tattered, makeshift soccer ball, with a group of kids on a dusty, rock strewn street, in the midst of a gang infested slum near Bogotá (Cazucá). From that moment, 20 children started to play soccer in a swamp as a result of raining days and dust of uncovered roads. Later, 200 hundred children dream was the same: having a safe, accessible place to play along with friends and family at the same time they’re learning the pedagogical lessons soccer always leave us, such as respect, disciplina, teamwork and constance.

Ciudadela Sucre (in the suburbs of Bogotá) was presented to us as an opportunity. An opportunity to bring as may people as possible together to focus on the very same goal: building the children’s dream soccer field. Thanks to the support of love.futbol, UEFA Foundation, Pavimentos Colombia and NOVO football, the dream was becoming a reality.

More than 100 volunteers worked during 1500 hours to shape everyone’s dream: our New Soccer Field in Ciudadela Sucre. The place hundreds of children were dreaming about is already here beneficiating more than 500 children.

We thank the support you've been giving Fundación Tiempo de Juego this year to be able to provide children and youth with an opportunity to have natural highs through sports.

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