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The cool mountain paradise of La Esperanza is the perfect place for a soccer vacation. Have you been looking for an international volunteer experience that includes soccer? Have you wanted to help kids in another country play the game you love? Want to help kids learn the basic soccer skills? Do you have a secret desire to coach kids who will appreciate everything you do? Kids who hang on your every word? Kids you treat you with utmost respect? Kids who quietly listen and try their hardest to follow your instructions? Kids who think it is a privilege to be in your program? Kids who walk for miles just to get a chance to be in your clinic? Kids who look up to you, value you and think you are the greatest person in the world? Kids who need what you are, who you are and what you have to offer? Kids to whom your very presence, your caring can change their lives forever?

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.

The strange thing is that at the end of your session, you will discover that YOU are the person whose life has been most enriched.

As You Give To The Youth Of Intibuca, You Find Yourself Being Filled Inside

To be whole as a person requires that we have four very vital things:

A) Community - to know you belong

B) Structure - to know how to do what we want to do so we succeed

C) Meaning - to know that what we is worth doing

D) A Superordinate Goal - to give to others outside our family or immediate friendship circle

As a volunteer with Intibuca Soccer Volunteers you give all the above to the youth of Intibuca. You will build the self esteem of the young people of Intibuca. And as you give, you will find yourself receiving the gift of reciprocal transfer of self esteem.

You Gain Because You Are Given Expanded Permitted Leadership Training

Our Intibuca Soccer Volunteers are a vital part of the soccer community e are creating in Intibuca. We are actively involved in creating a true community. The skills you gain in self esteem building, community building, expanded permitteds leadership, overcoming mind Clonishness, program development will be yours forever.You will be given training in all of the above skills.

You Will Become A Lifetime Member of Our True Community And Will Be Welcomed Back At Any Time

We are creating a true community in the mountains of Intibuca for all our volunteers. A true community is the greatest need we all feel. What is a true community and why do we need one to be whole?

La Esperanza Soccer Coaching & Program Development Opportunities

Volunteer Coach

You will work with local teams in individual soccer skills, game strategy and tactics, game flow, decorum and everything that these youth players need to know to succeed in soccer. You will work with team practices, conditioning, development of practice plans and drills, hill running, nutrition, and all the aspects of coaching. You know what coaches do.You do them well. Now share a little bit of that knowhow, that passion you feel for teaching kids with the young soccer players of Intibuca.

Intern

You will be working directly with the leadership of the Liga Menor and CODET to perform needed tasks to make these programs work for youth. You will work in groups to make plans, develop project proposals, write grant proposals, and help administer soccer programs. You will participate in putting on tournaments, holding clinics and camps. In addition, we want to develop a more interactive website so we need someone who understands website design.

Soccer Tourism Volunteer

We are attempting to develop Soccer Tourism for sustainable economic development in Intibuca. You will be expected to visit soccer fields, local communities, help develop soccer tourism plans and facilities. Local communities are eager to develop tournaments, clinics, camps and other soccer projects. You will help them develop project plans, schedules and systems they can use to develop soccer tourism in their communities.

Soccer Mentor

The Liga Menor has many talented players who might have a future is they could get some dedicated coaching. Here you will work with a small group of three to four talented players to assess and evaluate their skills. If they are able to develop their talents, there is hope they can go to the USA on a soccer scholarship or play professionally within Latin America or even Europe. These young players you see here have great natural ability. But without training to harness and direct those abilities, they will have no future in soccer. You can change the life of one of these youngsters forever.

Soccer Facilities Builder

Would you like to be a key part of building a youth soccer center for poor children and children from the streets? The Intibuca Youth Soccer Center needs people like you to help us lay out fields, construct soccer fields, build field houses, construction of all the training equipment needed to develop this program. You will be supervising local people and volunteers in construction of fields and facilities. You don't have to be an architect or engineer but we welcome them. You just have to be willing to work to help build soccer training facilities for these young people.

Soccer Master Program Developer

In order for all the young people who come into our program to get the most from the soccer programs we offer in Intibuca, we need a soccer skills method that offers a level playing field to every child. That system, the Soccer Masters Soccer Learning System is being developed by Dr. Carol Cross. This program is a begin at the beginning program based on the learning skills offered by taekwondo. The first level, the red sock level is being developed. However, Dr. Cross is not a soccer player and would like to invite volunteers to come to Honduras and help to develop this program. Once the system is developed it will be offered to orphanages and street children projects throughout Latin America.

Providing Training For Coaches

One of the major problems that confront the dedicated coaches in the Liga Menor is the lack of training for coaches. While we take for granted the requirements for D Level, C Level, B Level and A level coaches, in Honduras to coach youngster all you have to do is be willing to come to practice and field a team. No training is required and in Intibuca, no training is provided. As a Coach Training Volunteer, you will work with coaches like the one to the left to learn basic coaching skills. A problem I have seen is coaches becoming angry when youth do not perform skills they have been taught. "He should have known how to do it". Coaches who do not have the skills for coaching and have not been taught, become frustrated and take it out on the kids. You will help them learn how to teach the game of soccer as a Coach Training Volunteer.

Referee Training

The referees in Intibucá are dedicated to the game and to the youth. These referees often earn as little as $1 per game for officiating 90 minutes. Yet they are expected to know all the rules and have uniforms, flags and officiate correctly. In Intibuca you do not have the ubiquitous referee certification clinics and retraining programs we take for granted in the states. Many do not know all the tournament rules as well. You will be working with referees to offer retraining, clinics and practicums for these dedicated referees.

If You Cannot Come to Honduras But Want To Participate

The Soccer Gear Donation Project is a joint project between Soccer for Life, Inc and the Liga Menor de Futbol Intibucana in the mountain state of Intibuca, Honduras. The Lenca Indian children of Intibuca love the game of soccer. But the average income in Intibuca is (36-54 Lempiras) or 2-3 dollars per day. And a rubber, round ball that can be used for soccer will cost a minimum of 100 Lempiras. That's more than a day's pay for a round ball. Actual soccer balls cost 500 Lempiras($27). Poor people who live on beans, rice, coffee and sugar cannot afford to buy soccer balls. Let alone uniforms, soccer shin guards or cleats. And in the USA, every year, thousands of used soccer balls, old uniforms, cleats in good condition are thrown out. And hundreds of thousands of perfectly good, usable soccer items languish in closets, garages, basements and storage rooms. It's time to bring those usable items out of the dark into the light where they can be shared with needy youth in Honduras. Find out more about the soccer gear donation project.

One of the most crucial needs is uniforms. There are many children who would like to play soccer, boys and girls alike. The need for uniforms is key because the sense of community is conveyed by being able to wear a uniform. The Uniform is the piece of equipment that unifies individual into a team. Without uniforms that represent their team, there is a sense of fragmentation. Teams need to wear the same uniform each time they play. Spectators need to come to know the team by its uniform. If a team wears a yellow uniforms one game and a blue the next and a green the third time, non one can become deeply involved. How can you say GO Blue team one day and Go Red Team the next or Go Green team on another day. Where is the team spirit?

One things I notice with donated uniforms is the lack of horseplay among players. They consider playing soccer a privilege and take their responsibilities seriously.

You can be a part of this new soccer based true community.

Soccer For Life Has A New North American Director To Head The Soccer Gear Donation Project, Shin Fujiyama. He is a student in Virginia who is already involved in volunteering in Honduras with Washington Overseas Missions and Hondukids. He will be volunteering with the Liga Menor in Honduras in August of 2005. He will will be accepting your soccer gear donations at Shin Fujiyama, 6511 Machodoc ct, Falls Church, VA 22043. You may contact Shin at 703-241-0461 or Cell Phone at 702-927-8706. Email him at shinfujiyama17@yahoo.com.

More About Shin Fujiyama, New North American Director of Soccer for Life And Leader of the Soccer Gear Donation Project

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 exportfacs@aol.com. Our Soccer Donation web site is http://www.satglobal.com/donate_boots.htm. Want To Know More About The Honduras Youth Soccer Project? Email us at exportfacs@aol.com

Return to Soccer For Life Page. Participate in the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center by emailing Dr. Carol Cross at honducopa@yahoo.com or exportfacs@aol.com .

Soccer Gear Donation Program Links

The Intibuca Soccer Volunteer programs are administered by CODET, S de R L, an Intibuca based sustainable development organization. CODET has as its goal the empowerment of the youth of Intibuca through soccer. 10 percent of all above cost revenues from these experiences are dedicated to the building of the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center. An additional ten percent of the above cost revenues go to the Honduras Youth Soccer Project, with its goal the opening of youth soccer in Intibuca to the estimated 10,000 youth living in the hills of Intibuca. Remaining CODET revenues will be devoted to staff development, building a soccer stadium and state of the art mountain training facility to be used by all the youth of Intibuca.

Contact Dr. Cross at 011-504-783-0421 or honducopa@yahoo.com.

In Honduras contact:

Dr. Carol Cross or Dr. Ramon Dario Argueta

CODET, S de R L

Barrio El Morera, Frente Bazar Reyna

La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras

Telephone 504-783-0054

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