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Collect Pairs Of Sneakers and Soccer Cleats , Support Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship, Participate In Project Athletic Shoes, and Build A VillageInternational Soccer Tournaments, Camps, and Tours Creates Culture Experiential YouthThere Are Two Soccer Worlds - One Soccer Community
More information on the Soccer Donation Project is available to you from soccer@satglobal.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:
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In a world increasingly polarized by race, tribal warfare, ethnic rivalry, attempts at ethnic cleansing and religious terror there is a need for a way for all of us to connect. We cannot operate on the basis of religions since religious wars abound. Nor can we use race in our countries with so many open boundaries and so much immigration everywhere.
We are need of an activity in the world that creates openness, develops community across racial and ethnic barriers. The most important thing in the lives of many people in the world is soccer. Soccer is the world interface language. Yes, soccer is a language. A language is a way of communicating that has rules of order and rules for how the communication takes place. A red card is a red card in any language. The rules of FIFA are the same in every country. People can play on a soccer team without understanding or speaking each other's language.
Soccer Is Important To People Worldwide
Soccer is the world's most important game. But soccer is more than just a game. It is a way of life. It is a spiritual experience. International soccer tournaments, camps, tours and training stings are the parts of Soccer Tourism. Soccer Tourism is about sharing the love of the game, forming community. It is a culture based on shared flow experiences, the enjoyment of music, cheering, supporting your teams and belonging to a soccer culture. This is the culture of soccer from Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. Many of the fans of soccer do not live lives of luxury in their own countries. Many of them work in the fields, are campesinos and work the entire week waiting for the release and the joy of experiencing the wave of energy from their fellow soccer aficionados.
The sharing of knowledge, the interaction between people of more than one culture, the learning of other languages is our hope for survival on our planet. Everywhere we see conflict. Ethnic cleansing. Race wars. Intertribal warfare. We see one ethnic group try to prevent other groups from being educated. As our planet increases it number of people, this will become infinitely more dangerous if we do not find a way to co exist with those who are different from us.
Our only hope is communication. Finding out about how others live. Seeing them in their homes and understanding that they too are part of a family. Understanding their languages, learning to talk with them and share who you are. Having Soccer Tourism experiences. Connecting into a world soccer community.
We know that we are by nature organisms that bond together in groups. It has been our survival since the beginning of our development as intelligent beings. But these old ways, ways I call negative Mind Clonishness. Negative Mind Clonishness includes a spectrum of negative energy directed from one group to another simply because they are different from us. These ideas are cloned from one mind to another, transferred across generations through teaching in the home and school.
If we do not gain control of these ideas, passed down to each of us from the Pleistocene, they will lead to our ultimate destruction as a species. In effect, our planet is in need of healing. Our planet itself is reeling from our internecine warfare, our selfish desires to control and rule. Yet we are intelligent beings. We can stop moving on a flow of consciousness and take volitional control of our lives and our actions. If we are to heal our planet, if we are to survive, if we are to create a better life, we must gain control of ourselves.
It is time for a new way of life a way of life based on eliminating the negative Mind Clonishness of the past and moving toward Positive Mind Clonishness which is acceptance of "those others" who may look different, act different, dress different, talk different, even think different. In order to do this, we need to understand them. To understand others we must learn to communicate with them. All of the programs of CREA are designed to enable us to learn the Tourism skills needed to meet the challenges that face us all in the 21 Century. I believe we will make the intelligent choice to take control of our minds, change our inner beliefs about "those others", and begin to heal our world.
Through soccer our youth are learning to connect, to become part of world soccer community. Our international soccer tournaments, clinics, camps, tours and training stints are being developed to be a key part of this new healing experience, the change in consciousness we need to survive. Welcome to the new world of cross cultural communication through soccer.
Our Soccer Youth begin a new way of life, a life as part of a world soccer community. They Experience the Joy - the Freedom of Choice Of The International Soccer Player. They Are Free to Make New Friends, Learn About Other Cultures And Create Relationships Across Ethnic And Cultural Barriers! The Whole World Is Their Community. They Belong Everywhere and With Everyone! They Are Citizens of the World! And Through Their Participation In International Soccer They Just May Create A Peaceful World.
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sfl@satglobal.comSoccer for Life, Inc., is an Arizona not for
profit organization dedicated to youth empowerment, youth involvement and youth sports for personal development.
In support of this mission, Dr. Carol Cross, Founder and International
Director of Soccer for Life invites you to participate in our programs in
Honduras. We are working to create confluence between youth in
developed countries including the USA, Canada, European countries, Japan,
Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and youth in
developing countries. Confluence or moving together alongside is one
of the most pressing needs of the 21st century. Young people growing
up today are going decide if it is war or peace. They will decide to
create friendships with those from other cultures or to act like enemies.
In addition, they are going to decide if our world will be green or brown,
hot or normal. Through Soccer For Life, our youth can build
friendships, create new ideas, develop projects to fight global warming and
change the world into a better place.It is our feeling that everyone is seeking community, structure, meaning an a Superordinate Goal. We consider these the requisite for a life lived for sharing and receiving alike, supporting and being supporting, offering comfort and being comforted. We call our "Personal Contribution To Life". Soccer for Life is seeking your help to develop the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center where intend to create the Soccer For Life Ecolodge for sponsors, donors and patrons of Soccer For Life can come and relax and regenerate. We are putting together a volunteer program, fund raising kits and all the support you need to make through Personal Contribution to Life.
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Honduras Soccer Volunteer ProgramSoccer For Life is a 501 (C)( 3), a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world’s most popular sport available to all the children of the Western Hemisphere. We need old soccer balls, shin guards, old soccer shirts and shorts, repair them, hold fund-raisers and develop training and coaching for Honduran street and mountain children. To find out more about Soccer For Life and its program for Youth contact Dr. Carol Cross, sfl@satglobal.com Setting Up the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center Soccer For Life is planning to set up the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center for our teams we will be developing. Because of the fact that many of our Youth-At-Risk have not yet learned the social manners of those in mainstream youth leagues and soccer clubside, we feel that thee youths should play among themselves until they gains better social skills. We will be teaching soccer skills, social skills and character skills such as teamwork, dealing with anger and self control. You are Invited To Participate In order to do this project, it will be necessary to create a supportive community. That is why we are inviting you to become a Soccer Youth Supporter. To find out more about Soccer For Life and its program for Youth At Risk, contact Dr. Carol Cross, sfl@satglobal.com To make this program work will require many volunteers. We need you. Some volunteers we need:
Need More Information About Donating Soccer Gear, Getting Involved With The Intibuca Youth Soccer Center Or Becoming a Volunteer? Want to get involved? More information on the Soccer Donation Project is available to you from sfl@satglobal.com . Want To Know More About The Honduras Youth Soccer Project? Get Involved With The Soccer for Life Soccer Ministry . Email us at sfl@satglobal.com Return to Soccer For Life Page. Participate in the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center by emailing Dr. Carol Cross at sfl@satglobal.com . Links To The Soccer Gear Donation Project
How to Prepare Your DonationsYour donations will be shipped to Honduras in the boxes you send. Please send in sturdy boxes no larger than 22 x 22 x 22 to:
The boxes should be no bigger than 22"x22"x22". Place items inside plastic garbage bags and close them before putting the soccer gear in the boxes. The boxes will be shipped by boat and this ensures they do not get wet. The boxes should be labeled with two labels: From Your Name Your Address Your City, State and Zip Your Email To
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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