Let’s recover together our hopes and dreams by playing soccer: An experience to achieve integration, development and citizenship
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Country: Peru
Organization: Club Alianza Lima
Sport: Soccer
Year the initative began (yyyy) 2000
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? The most important fact: Playing soccer:
a) Makes human development possible, by dealing with the lack of dialogue between identity and diversity Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? We use soccer as a pedagogic tool, to deal with social problems and to achieve social integration of youngsters; due to its capacity of attraction and organization, it revitalizes organization and participation processes in order to set local agendas and create new strategic alliances with governmental and non-governmental bodies at a local, national and regional level. There are two sets of initiatives proposed: the creation of a network of organizations and, in particular, youngsters, for community coordination and the formation of a “shared vision” of common problems. The reproducibility of this network methodology and work generates a unique opportunity to influence transformation, social development and incidence at a local, national and regional scale.
Soccer guarantees attraction and mobilization with the aim of promoting strategies for social development where cities and local spaces may become spheres of creative diversity, where the convergence of different and distinct What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change? We find that the main problem is the high level of social exclusion of teenage population. They do not have access neither to decision stages in the creation of public policies nor possibilities of social development. Thus, their citizenship is limited and restricted to voting sporadically.
Ending exclusion and lack of opportunities for individual growth, promotion of values, expansion of capacities, abilities and learning processes; overcoming the lack of public and safe spaces for communal Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? Our proposal is to use soccer in order to organize children, youngsters and sports training leaders in order to improve their life conditions, generating transformation and development capacity, incorporating the cultural aspect regarding law and citizenship; they will not only play soccer but they will be incorporated to education, work, cultural and artistic inclusion programs and social intervention leaders training. The coordination of community initiatives of this project guarantees the incidence in public policies; in order to achieve this, permanent spaces of debate, analises, proposals’ formulation and devising of agendas and youth plataforms will be created.
It is necessary to consider soccer as an expression of popular culture and a factor of wealth accumulation and development and also as a main element in the formation of sensitiveness, expressiveness, coexistence and citizenship. How do you plan to grow your innovation? By means of network work, which will coordinate and sustain the organization of the proposal.
The relationship with institutions, community and youth organizations in order to coordinate these within a soccer network with the aim of achieving social development. Our goal is to make the process more visible at a local, regional, national and international level, so that youngsters’ aspiration and inclusion platforms are legitimized around the world. On the other hand, the systematization of the experience will constitute the theoretical framework gradually, generated by the developing experience. Regarding this aspect, we have devised, based on the work of the ACPNI (Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo), a Curricular Proposal for the Formation of Sports Leaders (Propuesta Curricular para la Formación de Líderes Deportivos) and the Street Soccer Events Model (Modelos de Eventos de Fútbol Callejero): Tournament, Formative School, Mediators’ School and Youth Fair. Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. Young people from Peru, men and women, grow as human beings; they participate positively in the development of their communities and feel confident
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries? To this date, 2,830 boys, girls and teenagers from 8 to 20 years old and 68 sports leaders are involved in the project.
Potential impact of the initiative: the lives of 10,000 people will be influenced and “moved” by the experience. Participants are: children and adults, men and women, parents and sons, sports leaders and trainers of communities.
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation? The most important goal is the reintegration of 18 young teenagers into school. Streets, courts and places previously used for violence and crime have been recovered.
- For the first time, soccer tournaments are coed, with the participation of 1,130 boys, girls, youngsters from 8 to 20 years old; the most excluded teams of the district competed, showing both sports and human quality. At the end, everyone got together because a spirit of unity, celebration, friendship and good neighborliness pr What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact? Reluctance to change, adults’ point of view regarding young people; building a relationship of trust, respect and prominence.
Political will and disposition of decision makers in order to incorporate these programs to their government policies. Financial issues, since comprehensive projects such as this one demand urgent resources. How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? Nowadays, the project is financed thanks to the funds of the cooperation and the FIFA, through its program "Football for Hope".
Due to its inclusion nature, it requires international cooperation, and governmental and companies' funds. If known, provide information on your finances and organization. Annual Budget in USD: $198,000.00
Profit: - Number of Employees: 18 professionals. What is the potential demand for your innovation? Professionals for comprehensive formation, nutritional supplementation due to the high level of malnutrition, suffered by both children and teenagers, sports equipment for training processes and the development of sports events, study materials and occupational training, documentation funds (to have access to birth certificates, NIDs).
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? Low budgets for youth issues, education and development; there are not many cooperators nor sources of financing for these topics.
We work with high-risk and extremely poor populations, thus, their needs are urgent and necessary for survival. The general vision of the society regarding “the poor”; it is thought that since they are poor, their costs, human investment, etc. have to be LOW!, e.g., poor diet, low education, etc. What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.
In 1982, Sara Diestro decides to live in the neighbourhoods, learning and sharing life and history with the inhabitants; she begins this life experience in Villa El Salvador (VES), then she continues in other popular districts of Lima and provinces, where she works in: (A) survival and popular diet strategy field, contributing to organization, training and management together with women in soup kitchens/bread lines, comités de vaso de leche [1], mothers’ clubs, women federations; (B) social development programs: training neighbourhood leaders in order to obtain legal services and sewage in their homes; working with youngsters to organize popular libraries, cultural groups; creating children’s groups; contributing to the development of productive and services economic units. She is involved in the Christian Life Communities (Comunidades de Vida Cristiana) of VES. • In Villa El Salvador, she took part in one of the best-known popular experiences, the Comprehensive Development Plan (Plan Integral de Desarrollo) (enforced until this date), which deals with a comprehensive management and popular participation model to design the city from the point of view of its inhabitants. As a technical adviser, she participated in the formulation of the Unique Health Plan (Plan Único de Salud), together with grassroots movements and health institutions, both public and private, developing organization, education, mobilization tasks, leaders and promoters training in schools. Contact Information:
Sara Diestro Cabanillas
Founder Club Alianza Lima (This field has not been completed) Discussions about this entry |
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Hello Sara,
Could you more specifically clarify what social impact your program has on individuals, the community and society? Also, could you clarify your plan and delivery model? We would like to know not only what your program is but how it operates and exists. Since your program has been operating since the year 2000, how do you plan to take it to the next level?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers