The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation is proud to announce that it now supports more than 100 community sports-based projects around the world, all of which are helping to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people in more than 30 countries.
The 100th figure was reached when the Coach Across America training initiative, launched with Laureus support last month, reached nine new sports-based youth development projects in Chicago.
The Laureus Sports for Good Foundation funds and promotes sport as a tool for social change. It is a global leader in research, expertise and best practice in supporting grassroots programmes around the world. Founded in 2000, it has raised more than €40 million for projects which have improved the lives of over one-and-a-half million young people.
Edwin Moses and his fellow members of the Laureus World Sports Academy, all great sporting legends, volunteer their time to support the work of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, whose mission is to use sport as the means to combat some of the world’s toughest social challenges facing young people today such as juvenile crime, gangs, HIV/AIDS, discrimination, social exclusion, landmines awareness and health problems like obesity.
Ned Wills, Director of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, promised there was much more to come. “The growth of projects that we support has now accelerated as we start to utilise and roll out the expertise that we’ve been developing over the last few years. I’m thrilled at the direction and the course that we’ve taken. I’m thrilled at the successes we’ve had.