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Recycled Athletic Shoe Financing - A New Method Of Financing Development
Soccer For Life
Project Athletic Shoes For Youth Empowerment
Collect Athletic Shoes/Soccer Cleats and Build A Small Youth Empowerment Village Tourism Project
Step By Step Guidelines For Collecting Sneakers and Cleats
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The
Vital Mission Of Soccer For Life - Teaching Our ChildrenShipping Fund
One Of The Most Difficult Part of Our Soccer For Life Project Is Funding For
Shipping To Honduras, Help Us Build A Shipping Fund
Funding Through Soccer Tournaments!
Share Your Cup Of Hope By Donating 1% Of Your Tournament Receipts To Soccer For Life. All Funds Are Tax Deductible.
Project Athletic Shoes For Youth Empowerment
Building
Income Generation For Soccer Youth
It takes a village to build a child.
How many times have you heard that? When you look at the programs on
tv asking you to send money every month don't you wonder if what you are
doing is building a child?
Soccer For Life offers you the opportunity through Project Athletic Shoe to
build a child through participation as a member of a virtual village
community. This virtual village will be reflected in an onsite small
scale tourism project being developed for youth entrepreneurship. This model
was developed after much brainstorming in Honduras. This is based on a
concept called EcoAgroForestry, first developed by Dr. Carol Cross in 1995
as a method of sustainable development. A key resources of Soccer for Life
in Honduras is Donaldo Caceres, one of the partners in the development of
the Compañia
de Reforestación, Energía y Agricultura (CREA) S.A., who is also the coach
of the second division professtional team, Athletico Esperanzano.
Coach
Caceres noted that 200 students graduated from the colegio and there
are only two available jobs. The greatest ambition of these youth is
to "go mojado" or become an illegal immigrant to the USA. We came up with
the idea of "Recycled
Athletic Shoe Financing". With this method of financing, we can keep
these youth in their communities and they can serve as the focal point to
develop sustainable farm based entrepreneurship projects in Intibuca.
We will offer community membership cards to all donors to show you are a
part of this innovative virtual village community
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Soccer Action
For A Green World
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Shop Online & Support UsYou Can Support Soccer For Life Programs In Honduras By Shopping Online Through Our Shopping Portal. By Shopping With Companies We List Here You Can Support Soccer For Life Fund Raising Activities. Shopping Through The Soccer For Life Shopping Portal Costs You Nothing And Provides Needed Funds For Our Projects. You Can Create A Miracle!Want to Help Create A Miracle By Donating To Soccer For Life For the Honduras Youth Soccer Program? It's Easy Through PayPal |
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You Can Create A Miracle!Want to Help Create A Miracle By Donating To Soccer For Life For the Honduras Youth Soccer Program? It's Easy Through PayPal
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 Mountain Children Often Play Soccer In Rubber Boots Because
They Don't Have Cleats. One Player Wore These Torn Sneakers To Play In
Because They Were The Only Ones He Owned. Please
Donate Soccer Cleats and Athletic Shoes
For These Youth.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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Field By
Transparency of The Project
Our activities will be transparent as we will document each step in the youth program for each Virtual Village project and post it to our website. Each Virtual village consortium will have its own website. You will also receive a free copy of MSN Messenger and a free Hotmail email address and a Yahoo group. As a member of the Project Athletic Shoe Consortium you will become part of a village that helps a child in Honduras escape his or her poverty stricken lives. You will become part of a four part village. You may be invited where feasible to visit Honduras and observe the youth being financed by your donation at work. Your village will be composed of:
Create Your Own Sharing Village In Honduras
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The mountain cloud forests of Intibucá are exquisite. Fog creates droplet of ethereal beauty as the pure white clouds come down to meet the earth. Ferns grow in profusion as we see places where no foot has ever trod. Hills and mountains abound, reminding one of Oregon. Sustainable tourism could be one of the answers to income generation in these mountains communities, many of which have no electricity. The problem is the cost of developing even small businesses is out of reach. Even a simple thing like a clean toilet and a flower garden that could attract tourists is out of the questions. If you drive in these mountains there are no rest areas or places to stop and get clean water or use the bathroom. Other projects could involve small scale food processing and other projects such as growing kenaf for handicraft projects.
What The Project Entails
Soccer for Life is partnering with CREA, a Honduras consulting firm to develop Sustainable Village Projects. Each Small Scale project will be developed by a YOUTH PARTICIPANT on HIS FAMILY LAND as a joint venture with CREA and Soccer for Life. Every project will serve the community by putting in an improved soccer field (either a new one or fix up the present one). Each will have a combination or one or more of these modules:
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A composting toilet which will be built, decorated and cleaned by the YOUTH PARTICIPANT |
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sanitary garbage disposal - A covered garbage can |
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Clean water supply - maintain 10 gallons of purified water at all time |
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Organic garden |
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blackberry patch |
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strawberry patch |
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flower garden |
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A Tilapia pond |
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organic potato patch |
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organic vegetables |
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organic coffee plantation |
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small scale fruit orchard (apples, pears, plums, peaches) |
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Fruit press for making fruit juice. |
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passion fruit orchard for juice and eating out of hand |
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orange grove for fresh orange juice |
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handicraft shop for making plant crafts |
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fruit leather making project |
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small scale fruit processing |
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small banana plantation |
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patasta vineyard |
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chamomile garden |
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small coffee roasting and tasting project |
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tree planting for fuelwood and small scale livestock feed production |
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rotation cropping and use of abono verde |
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a rustic hostel with hammocks for overnight stay |
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a soccer field (either a new one or fix up the present one) |
CREA will be building a small scale cannery and artisan workshop so that our participants can market their products to us and we will process them and sell them.
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Step By Step Guidelines For Collecting Sneakers
Empowering Youth Through Project Athletic Shoe
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| Youth Participant Will Grow Banana and Plantain | Youth Participant Must Be Willing To Work Hard | Youth Participants Must Plant Trees |
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| Youth Participant Will Build His Own Coffee Nursery | Youth Participant Must Know How To Use Farm Tools | A Typical Mountain Small Farm Ideal For Youth Participant To Build A Small Business Project |
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| Youth Participant Will Dig A Small Tilapia Pond For Protein | Youth Participant Will Rotate His Crops With Abono Verde or Fertilizer Beans | Youth Participant Will Stake His Blackberries For Clean Fruit |
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| Youth Participant Must Learn To Share His Skills With Family and Community Members | Digging Holes and Planting Trees and Fruit Crops Is Required | The Best Youth Participants Will Be Farm Youth |
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Youth Will Build A Composting Toilet and Decorate It With Painting and Artwork |
Youth Will Learn To Use Hand Tools For Building |
Youth Will Be Able To Create Handicrafts From Plant Materials To Sell To Tourists |
 Youth Will Grow Organic Coffee For Processing |
 Youth Will Roast Coffee With The Tourist So They Have The Experience Of Processing Their Own Coffee |
 Youth Will Grow Vegetables Organically To Serve Food To Tourists |
 Youth Will Beautify The Site With Flowers
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 Youth Will Plant and Harvest Tree Fruits And Process For Sale to Tourists |
This will be a family project, led by one of the soccer youth we work with here. The young person will be called a YOUTH PARTICIPANT. What will a family need to create this project?
A four way VILLAGE. A square is the most stable form there is.
Here are the four Village Members:
Village Member One
YOU as collector, donor and fundraiser and athletic shoes (size 6 and larger) join with other soccer people. You will be joining with other donors to collect these shoes. We will be grateful for one pair or whatever number you are able to collect. When you email us, let us know you want to be part of a Linked In Group for Project Athletic Shoes For Building. We will send you an invitation to join a Special Linked In Group of others who will work with you to make these collection. Through LinkedIn you can communicate with others who are participating with you. share ideas, problems and solutions and methods of collection.
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Your part is to participate with others in your community and Linked In community online to collect 500 pairs of soccer cleats and/or athletic shoes. |
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You will need to wash and pack the shoes you are able to collect |
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You will need to raise the funds to ship these shoes to Honduras. They will first be shipped to our shipping company in Florida and from there we will take them to Honduras by boat. 500 pair of shoes will weigh about 500 lb and take up 10 24 x 24 boxes. A company in Florida will ship them for $50 per box because we are a nonprofit. More Information on this when you want to ship your athletic shoes or cleats. |
There is a complete guideline for collecting athletic shoes and other soccer gear through a fund raising Field Day, includes all the steps you need.
Village Member Two
Soccer for Life will serve as the collector for the athletic shoes and provide tax deduction receipts to donors. Soccer for Life will collect seeds and obtain donated tools for the project as well as funds for shipping to Honduras
Village Member Three
CREA will clean the athletic shoes, hire workers to repair and market the shoes. CREA will also administer the project, oversee construction of project and have part ownership of the project to ensure its is organic, sustainable and environmentally sound. CREA will have the responsibility to train the YOUTH PARTICIPANT in sustainable methods and continue monitoring the project. In addition, CREA will put up a website marketing the small entrepreneurship project. CREA will also train the participants through workshops, seminars and courses.
Village Member Four
The YOUTH PARTICIPANT will offer sweat equity in building structures, planting crops, maintaining cleanliness of the project, serving the customer etc
Activities - employment generation -training, sustainable development, economic development
See complete step by step outline of how your project will work
Soccer 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, soccer@satglobal.com Tax Deduction Statement Is Available.Soccer for Life is a non profit 501-(3) C organization designed to enable all the children of the Western Hemisphere to have the opportunity to play soccer, the beautiful game. Soccer for Life has received a determination of tax exemption from Federal Income taxes . All contributions to Soccer For Life, Inc., are deductible under section 170 of the Code. That means that donations of cash as well as equipment, used soccer gear, vehicles, etc., receive a tax deduction from IRS. Any donation will be valued and you will receive a statement from Soccer for Life, Inc., that you can use to deduct from your income tax. We are classified as a public charity under 509 (a) (2) of the IRS code. We function under the laws of the State of Arizona and carry an Internal Revenue Service "Recognition of Exemption", No. 17053296009004. 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, 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 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? Get Involved With The Soccer for Life Soccer Ministry . Email us at soccer@satglobal.com Return to Soccer For Life Page. Participate in the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center by emailing Dr. Carol Cross at soccer@satglobal.com
Links To The Soccer Gear Donation ProjectHow 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, 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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