Collect Pairs Of Sneakers and Soccer Cleats, Support Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship, Participate In Project Athletic Shoes,  and Build A Village

Players & Individuals Are Invited To Give The Cup Of Hope To The Children Of Honduras

Players & Individuals! You Have A Cup Of Hope To Share. Will You Share Your Cup?

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Creating 21st Century Youth Leaders Through Sharing The Cup of Hope

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Soccer For Life Needs Caring Individuals

You Are Needed to Support the Soccer For Life Mission In Several Ways:

1.  Participate in Project Athletic Shoe For Youth Empowerment As A Coordinator.

 Ask all the parents and adults you know to clean out their old athletic shoes, basketball shoes and running shoes and bring them to you. Ask them to donate ten dollars for shipping to Honduras. You as  coordinator  collect the athletic shoes.  The cost of shipping 500+ pairs of shoes to Honduras is around $250.  All you need is a contribution of 25 people to pay for the shipping.   Go to the page Project Athletic Shoes For Youth Empowerment for details on the project.  You can send out emails to all your friends and ask them to help. CLICK HERE for a sample email letter you can send out.

All You Have To Do IS Collect 500 Pairs of Athletic Shoes/Soccer Cleats and Pay The Shipping Cost To Honduras. With This Gift, Your Group Build A  Youth Empowerment Small Tourism Project In Their Village. CLICK HERE And Take A Look At How Your 500 pairs Of Shoes Will Change A Young Person's Life. 

Where Can You Find 500+ Pairs of Athletic Shoes?

There are many ways to collect your 500+ pairs of shoes.  Here are some ways

1.  Ask each member of your organization to collect athletic shoes from their closets, garages and basements.

2. Place a collection box in your organization meeting home

3.  Have a "Athletic Shoe Potluck" and have each person bring a pair of shoes along with the food

4.  Talk to other local organizations with thrift shops and ask them to donate a few pair

5.  Talk to your local shoe stores and ask them to donate a few pair

6.  Ask to put up a box in the local high school

7. Go to your local college and ask them if they have a recycling program and will they help by collecting at the college

8.  Ask your employer if you can collect athletic shoes there

9.  Talk to the mayor of your town and ask him for support

10.  See if you can put a public service announcement on local radio or television

11. Talk to your pastor

12. If you belong to organizations like Kiwanis or Lions Club see if they will help collect at their meetings

13.  Give out flyers wherever you go (We will be having a pdf file online soon that you can download and print)

14. Take off your athletic shoes and add them to the mix.

15.  Your own ideas....

2.  Collect Unused Sport Equipment and Materials from your closet, Storage Unit, Garage and Basement and Ship Them To Honduras

Everything you no longer use can be used by the Honduras Youth Soccer Project.  We need uniforms, t shirts, shorts, socks, nets, balls, medals, trophies, warm-ups, jackets, sports bags, water bottles, nets, portable goals, soccer cleats.  It doesn't matter what it is if you had it for sports activities and you still have it, we can use it. 

3.  Donate 1% of the Your Income To Soccer For Life

Soccer for Life is an Arizona non profit which has received tax exempt status from IRS.

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

Please email us at honducopa@yahoo.com for information on sharing your cup of hope.

4. Sponsor A Donation Concurso

Many community want to hold concursos.  These concursos draw the people together.  Here's one concurso where hundreds of children and adults came together.  The children to compete, the adults to watch.  The concurso is like a field day in the USA.  The soccer gear you donate, the funds you send for shipping enable these communities to come together for a day of clean fun and soccer. Here the mayor of San Miguelito welcomes Soccer for Life to a large concurso held in this mountain community.  Not only did we enjoy the races, we also helped out with a little coaching for goalies, which is sorely lacking here.  As a result, we are offered many opportunities to teach character.

5.  Volunteer In Honduras With Project Athletic Shoe For Youth Empowerment

This is a unique volunteer opportunity to be a part of the pioneering Recycled Athletic Shoes Financing program.  You will live in Intibuca and participate with Peace Corps volunteers,  international volunteers, Intibuca Youth Soccer Volunteers in planning and supporting youth in their small scale tourism projects. These projects will be funded by the Recycled Athletic Shoe Financing program.

6.  Sponsor a City Wide Athletic Shoe and Soccer Cleat Drive

Want to really make a big difference?  Help us by setting up a athletic shoe drive in your city.  We have flyers and other support documents we can email you.

7  Donate Cash For Shipping Donations to Honduras

The cost of shipping by boat to Honduras is one of our major obstacles in serving these children.  We need funds to ship boxes of goods we already have.  Whatever you are willing to donate is welcome.

8.  Become An Intibuca Youth Soccer Volunteer

As a soccer volunteer in La Esperanza, you can affect the life of a child. You can help a child with limited soccer skills to fit in. You can help build soccer fields. You can help build training equipment. You can show kids how to perform drills. You can share training tips with coaches and trainers. You can develop training regimes. You can become an integral part of the building of the Intibuca Youth soccer Center. And you will enrich the lives of the youth of Intibuca. CLICK HERE for information on this opportunity.

9. Remember Soccer For Life  In Your Will

As you provide for your loved ones in your will, you may also wish to remember Soccer For Life.   If you would like us to benefit from your will, the following is a suggested wording:

I bequeath the sum of ....... to Soccer For Life Compassionate  for any one of the charitable activities under the care of Soccer For Life."

... and instruct your financial executor to contact:

Dr. Carol Cross

Soccer For Life, Inc.

1060 NW 85th Street

Miami, FL 33150

 

or

Dr. Carol Cross, Directora

Honduras Youth Soccer Project

Directora De Desarrollo - Liga Menor de Fútbol Intibucana

Barrio Lempira de Intibuca, Frente ADEL

Casa Amarilla, Contiguo a la cooperativa mixta de COMIXCIL

Intibuca, Intibuca, Honduras

 10.  Promote The Soccer For Life Program In Your Community

There are members in your club or group that have soccer and sports gear in their closets, garages and basements. They don't know about our work in Honduras and how it is helping the poor children of Intibuca get what they need to play.  You are the key to sharing the Soccer For Life Mission with them.  Help us collect soccer gear and promote the Honduras Youth Soccer Project. You can stop the waste of used soccer gear in your community.  You can stimulate companies and groups to donate.  Help us Share The Soccer Gear Donation Project

Thank You For Caring And Sharing

You Have Made The Honduras Youth Soccer Project A Success

The Honduras Youth Soccer Project has been a huge success. Because you -OUR DONORS - shared your soccer gear we have reached out to many youth and many communities here in Honduras.  We have distributed hundreds of your gifts, including balls, many thousands of shirts and delivered uniforms and supplies to kids in the department of Intibuca.  The kids to the left are wearing donated uniforms, with donated cleats, donated shin guards and wearing donated medals.  They received a donated trophy. It was wonderful to see. YOUR DONATIONS OF SOCCER GEAR MADE THESE HAPPY CHILDREN PLAY AND WIN WITH PRIDE!

We Expect The Children To Do Something In Return For The Donations

While we are willing to provide poor communities, church groups, indigenous villages  with a complete set of uniforms consisting of 16  soccer shirts, 16 pairs of soccer shorts and 16 pair of soccer socks, we do want something in return. The kids in the States that collected these items worked hard. Some of them set up collection boxes, others went from door to door and other organized the materials, spending hours sorting them, washing them and getting them ready to come to Honduras. In return for these uniforms we ask the following from each group:

Scenes of Youth Soccer in Intibuca - Kids Playing In A Soccer Tournament Using Soccer Gear Donate By US Coaches, Teams and Youth (CLICK HERE If You Want To Donate Used Gear).  Adopt a Soccer Team in Honduras - Only You Can Make It Possible For Every Child To Play Soccer

Help Poor Children Of Latin America Get The Soccer Gear They Need to Play

Soccer For Life is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world’s most popular sport available to all the children of the Western Hemisphere. We intend to collect old soccer balls, shin guards, old soccer shirts and shorts, repair them, hold fund-raisers and develop training and coaching for Mexican, Honduran and Nicaraguan.  In Honduras, Soccer for Life offers the Honduras Youth Soccer Project. See children here making balls from plastic chip bags.

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Honduras Soccer Volunteer Program

Soccer 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 at sfl@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 these youths should play among themselves until they gain better social skills.

We will be teaching soccer skills, social skills and character skills such as teamwork, dealing with anger and self control.

Need More Information About Donating Soccer Gear, Getting Involved With The Intibuca Youth Soccer Center Or Becoming a Volunteer? Want to get involved?

Links To The Soccer Gear Donation Project

Donation and Sponsorship Opportunities

Scenes of Youth Soccer in Intibuca - Kids Playing In A Liga Menor de Futbol Intibucana Soccer Tournament Using Soccer Gear Donate By US Coaches, Teams and Youth (CLICK HERE If You Want To Donate Used Gear) "Soccer For Life Is Seeking The Donation Of A Used Bus For The Liga Menor In Honduras. Soccer For Life Has Received Public Charity Designation By The IRS. Tax Deduction Statement Is Available. ***"

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