Posts Tagged ‘homeless’
More from Camp…
It’s been an awesome couple of days for the team at the OFC Headquarters – full of good fun, good training, good home-cooked kai and heaps of good people to talk to. Although the training games and exercises have been hard out, there’s also been plenty of opportunity for everyone just to get to know [...]
Pair embarking on cup experience
What with everything else happening we forgot to share the latest piece by Charlie Gates in The Press. Tere and Paddy will also be joined on the trip from Christchurch by Gabor Radak from the City Mission. He’s the team’s Assistant Manager.
Christchurch earthquake
The recent earthquake in Canterbury has left hundreds homeless. There are concerns that insurers could take over a year to respond to the sheer weight of claims and this could lead to more hardship in the months to come. Our thoughts are with our friends at Christchurch City Mission and with all the homeless people [...]
World Cup heroes help get homeless team on its way
Awesome news. New Zealand Football has been instrumental in helping Street Football Aotearoa raise funds to take a Kiwi team to this year’s Homeless World Cup. Amanda Fisher writes in the Dominion Post about the help we’ve received as All White Andy Barron meets Fabian and the rest of the Wellington players. Click on the [...]
Street Football on Breakfast
Check out coverage of our Road to Rio (2010 Rio Homeless World Cup) on TV1′s Breakfast show with Paul Henry. Paul Henry’s bafflement as to why people are homeless in New Zealand is one of the key reasons for Street Football Aotearoa’s existence – to raise awareness and understanding of this issue. Until we have [...]
Street Football and Spanky
Listen to Steve’s chat with Spanky about Street Football Aotearoa and our ‘Road to Rio’ on Chistchurch’s RDU by clicking on the image below:
Homeless find hope in global game
Charlie Gates of The Press newspaper in Christchurch talks about New Zealand’s second shot at international football glory this year. Christchurch training is run in partnership with Christchurch City Mission. To read the story, click on the link here. To donate to the trust and help get the team to the Homeless World Cup, click [...]
Changing lives through football
Bruce Munro of the Otago Daily Times writes about the project run by our partner agency in Dunedin, PACT. The article was written in the run up to the Street Soccer National Championships held in Wellington in November 2009. To read the story, click on the link here or on the image below.
Everitt Johnson, 2008 New Zealand Captain, on Nine to Noon
In the run up to the screening of Kicking It at the Human Rights Film Festival in May 2009 the Captain of the 2008 Homeless World Cup team talked candidly and very movingly with Lynn Freeman on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. Everitt talks about the impact of the experience on him, his [...]
Homing in on World Cup in Melbourne
In the run up to the Melbourne Homeless World Cup in 2008 the Auckland based members of the squad spoke to the Auckland Central Leader about their “once in a lifetime opportunity”. Click here or on the image below to read the article.
