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Weʼve raised £13,629 to This weekly Football training club is vital and fun for refugee children in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon for team play, focus & friendship.
- Funded on Tuesday, 16th March 2021
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Hundreds of thousands of refugee children live in camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon with limited schooling, little structure and no sporting activities available. This football training gives them a hobby and a weekly commitment, it creates a structure of normality and is
fun. Roman says. 'Football United' brings them the chance to play and be a team.
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- 3 years ago
Raffaella Barker
3 years agoThank you all so much for your support. Football U survives despite the current very serious difficulties faced in Lebanon. The tiny football project is able to keep going thanks to the determination of Youssef our marvellous coach, and the indomitable spirit of the children. A sports day in the Bekaa region recently resulted in interest from more schools in the area. We will return soon for a further fund raising. Football heals.
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- 4 years ago
Raffaella Barker
4 years agoThe lads having team talk with Roman. The weekly training gives time to run around and to focus on football skills. There are children who joined at the beginning in 2016 and still here today.Others graduated, learning to become coaches themselves. Football U is dedicated to bringing team games (in Ramadan they focus on art), to children with little to look forward to in lives of hardship . Right now we are fund raising for more kit. Help spread the word and raise the game. £5 helps, this is a small project, with small but important goals.
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- 5 years ago
Raffaella Barker
5 years agoFOOTBALL UNITED helps these children play football every week: It's a small project so your help counts: £10 buys a pair of boots of one of the children £30 pays for the bus to to take them to the pitch £50 pays a session with our coach £100 pays for the pitch for a month £250 pays for another training session for more children for a whole month Keeping this project consistent so the children can rely on this weekly activity is vital. THANK YOU Help Us To help the children play regularly
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176
Anonymous
Jan 7, 2021
Great cause hope it keeps going love Eliza
£50.00
Anonymous
Aug 10, 2020
£20.00
Alym
Aug 9, 2020
SvE
Aug 5, 2020
£100.00
Love Liza xx
Jul 9, 2020
£200.00
Pip Usher
Jul 6, 2020
Get those girls playing, too! Xxxxx
£50.00
Anonymous
Jun 9, 2020
£20.00
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Raffaella Barker
I run this page for my son Roman He lived in Beirut for 4 yrs, & saw the need for refugee children to have a weekly focus of sport for mental & physical wellbeing. He set this up single handed 3 years ago & has seen what it means 1st hand: 'Football creates connection' he says.