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Will You Help Us Share The Cup Of Hope With The Children Of Honduras By Sharing Information About Soccer For Life? Just Ask Your Friends, Your Team Members And Your Family To Clean Out Their Closets, Garages & Basements And Send Their Soccer Gear To The Honduras Youth Soccer Project.

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SHARING THE SOCCER GEAR DONATION PROJECT IN YOUR COMMUNITY

More information on the Soccer Donation Project is available to you from sfl@hmradvencen.com Our Soccer Donation web site is http://www.satglobal.com/donate_boots.htm. Want To Know More About The Honduras Youth Soccer Project?

Send Your Donations (athletic shoes, balls, cleats, uniforms, t-shirts, shorts, warmup clothes, balls, goalkeepers gear,  medals, trophies, first aid equipment, referee gear, goals, nets) to:

SHARE THE SOCCER GEAR DONATION PROJECT

Getting the Message Out Locally and on the Internet

We all believe in the wonderful positive effect soccer has had in the lives of your children. Soccer for Life is leading the way in sharing the beautiful game with the poor children of Honduras. We have already shipped many boxes of collected uniforms to Honduras but the need is great. In La Esperanza, 450 boys are playing soccer with the Liga Menor. But there is no soccer program for girls. And there are thousands of kids in this one community that would love to play soccer.

Chances are your closets, garages and basement have old soccer uniforms, soccer cleats, shin guards, soccer socks and perhaps even a net or two. But how can we get the message out and get other soccer parents, coaches and teams involved? We are in need of a critical mass of soccer donors to enable us to give soccer to the 5000 children in La Esperanza alone who want to play soccer. We need YOU to get the ball rolling in your area.

A key project of Soccer For Life is the Honduras Youth Soccer Program which includes a soccer gear donation project and the Youth Soccer Leaders Program. Soccer for Life is working with the Liga Menor de Futbol Intibucana to develop the Honduras Youth Soccer Center. You are invited to take a look at some Scenes of Youth Soccer in Intibuca, photos of youth playing soccer in Intibuca using uniforms collected by Soccer for Life and shipped to Honduras. We are building the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center as a residential soccer academy and complex.

Soccer for Life has done a lot to bring the awareness of the needs of the children in Honduras for collected soccer gear in its local area as well as on the Internet. Now you can do the same thing in your local area and create more soccer gear donation awareness.

Soccer for Life now gives readers of our website the step by step guidelines you need to promote and publicize the soccer gear donation project using these specific activities. Each of the these steps have been taken in Soccer for Life's local area already.

1. Decision Making And Planning

1. Make the decision to promote the soccer gear donation project in your local area

It is vital that you realize that a great deal of your time will be required if you are going to create local awareness of the needs of youth in Honduras for what is resting in the bottom of your closet, stuffed in your garage and in a corner of your basement. Be prepared to answer questions and be willing to visit with potential donors any time.

2. Go to these websites and find out more about the Liga Menor. In November, the Liga Menor played in an international tournament, many teams wearing donated equipment.

3. Obtain a FREE Youth Soccer Leaders Program Program Kit and begin your own soccer gear collection project, no matter how small

2. Decide which groups) you will target for your outreach

There are several groups you may choose to target

Target # 1 Soccer moms you know whose kids have been in soccer before

Target #2 Soccer moms whose kids are still playing soccer

Target # 3 Soccer groups like AYSO

Target # 4 Soccer clubs

Target # 5 Soccer State Association

Target # 6 High School Soccer programs

Target # 7 College Soccer Programs

Target # 8 Amateur Adult Soccer Teams

Target # 9 Professional teams

Target # 10 Soccer tournaments

Target # 11 Elementary, high school and college students who have played soccer

Target # 12 Anyone with whom you would like to share information about the Youth Soccer Leaders Program.

Target # 13 Churches that may have soccer programs

Target # 14 Organizations like the Boys and Girl Clubs, Kiwanis, YMCA

Target # 15 Volunteers like Soccer Moms who want to get involved in soccer gear collection and discussion and want to lead a cleat drive.

Let's assume you want to target anyone who might have an interest in volunteering to head a cleat drive. The following scenario assumes you are attempting to share information with anyone, and when special groups develop you will develop specialized information for each.

3. Decide whether to focus locally or to include the Internet

PLAN

Write down the following things on a one page plan.

1. How much time you plan to spend

2. How much interaction do you already have in the soccer community in your area

3. What your goals are in sharing information about the soccer gear donation project

4. What your areas of soccer gear donation project expertise are

5. What you want to see as a visible indication of your outreach.

IMPLEMENT LOCALLY

1. Contact the state soccer association in your state for names of people interested in soccer from your local area

2. Contact your local soccer clubs

3. Attend any soccer camps, clinics, tournaments, and friendlies in your area

4. Write up a Soccer Donation FAQ based on the knowledge you have about the Youth Soccer Leaders Program, the Honduras Youth Soccer Program, and the soccer gear donation project.

5. Take photos of any soccer gear collections you may find

6. Write articles and submit press releases to local papers

7. Put together a local farmer forum on soccer gear donation

10. Speak at any soccer gear donation activities and forums in your local area.

IMPLEMENT WIDELY

1. Make your own soccer gear collection project, no matter how small

2. Develop a soccer gear donation projects with 4-H or your local school - donate your own old soccer gear and serve as a volunteer in the classroom or in 4-H

3. Write and submit photos, press releases and articles to your local newspaper

4. Publish your own soccer gear donation newsletter

5. Develop a Honduras Youth Soccer Program, the soccer gear donation project mailing list and send greeting cards

6. Develop a card update program for your mailing list.

IMPLEMENT THROUGH THE INTERNET

1. Hold a soccer gear donation seminar on the internet

2. Develop a soccer gear donation newsletter

3. Establish a Youth Soccer Leaders Program group in your community

4. Put together and hang a local soccer gear donation page. Visit the Youth Soccer Leaders Program page and soccer gear donation project pages. If you are viewing this document as a web page you may click to the document. If you are not viewing a webpage you may go to:

5. Develop an Online soccer gear donation information center

6. Develop a soccer gear donation electronic mailing list

7. Submit articles to the coming Soccer Gear Donation Online newsletter to sfl@hmradvencen.com

MISCELLANEOUS ONGOING ACTIVITIES

1. Collect soccer camp, clinic, tournament photos from your area

2. Trying canvassing your block and collecting from every home and showing it to local schools and youth groups

SOCCER FOR LIFE WILL HELP YOU PROMOTE AND PUBLICIZE THE SOCCER GEAR DONATION PROJECT

I want to see the soccer gear donation project reach its great potential. I will be willing to help anyone develop any of these soccer gear donation outreach items at NO COST.  Items wil be sent by email.

REQUESTS SOCCER FOR LIFE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE OF ALL READERS OF THIS WEBSITE

Please participate in the Honduras Youth Soccer Program which includes a soccer gear donation project and the Youth Soccer Leaders Program, by sending in your articles, research studies and Soccer Tourism project information.  Please send me by email tosfl@hmradvencen.comor to our mailing address:

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This website is also available on a CD Rom. Soccer for Life has already been involved in each of these activities and will share the materials SFL used. Also, if you would like to develop your own local or internet soccer gear donation project we will be happy to assist with clip art, etc.

Conclusion: You can change the lives of children in Honduras with your used soccer gear. Want to ensure that these deserving youth get a change to play the beautiful game?

Then it is up to those of us who are involved with soccer and see the power that giving can provide to our privileged youth to promote and publicize the Honduras Youth Soccer Program which includes a soccer gear donation project and the Youth Soccer Leaders Program in our the local area. If several hundred people who believe in the soccer gear donation project's potential for impacting the lives of these youth would develop similar outreaches, thousands and boys and girls in Honduras would be able to play in organized soccer programs by the year 2010.

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

A. You can collect used soccer uniforms, balls, nets, cleats and shoes for sending to Honduras and send them to Dr. Carol Cross

Here's how to ship used soccer gear to Honduras.

Please include a check for US$25 for shipping each box to Honduras by boat.

PH 504-783-2293 or 504-783-0199

The donated items must be itemized on the Donation Invoice Sheet. A copy must be placed in each box as well as a separate copy must be sent to Dr. Cross. Make sure when you send her the envelope of the donation sheets, you tell her it is for the Soccer for Life Donation project.

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