Location and general information
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Employability - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal developmentContext
The project is based in Sodo, Ethiopia. This area of the country is developing rapidly, bringing both opportunities and societal challenges. As the region’s economy grows, thousands of children are migrating from the countryside into Sodo in the hope of improving their lives, but they are often met with poverty and violence. Many girls fall into prostitution or suffer severe abuse. Even children who are born in the city often struggle to afford school and end up working on the streets with no education, and destined for a future of exploitation.
Project goals
- Use sport to bring people together and teach tolerance, respect and teamwork
- Reduce and prevent child slavery, crime and prostitution
- Increase school attendance among vulnerable children
- Improve the physical, psychological and social well-being of all participants
- Promote personal development, support relationship-building, and build soft skills
Project content
Busajo Campus is a social and educational project that supports street children from the city of Sodo and the surrounding countryside. These children have often suffered extreme poverty, exploitation and cultural marginalisation, and have first-hand experience of problems like child slavery, crime and prostitution. Through a mixture of education, personal development activities, sport and vocational training, the project gives these children a chance to reclaim their dignity and rebuild their confidence and hope for the future.
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