Location and general information
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Personal developmentContext
Two out of five children in Greece live in low-income households at risk of poverty and social exclusion. The situation is exacerbated by the migration crisis, with 50,000 refugee and migrant children in Greece. These children face numerous challenges, including domestic violence, high levels of school dropout and high levels of stress and depression. They also lack basic resources, educational support, and creative and life-skills education, resulting in fewer opportunities and social exclusion.
Project content
Beyond Goals 2 is the second phase of ActionAid Hellas’ RISE programme aimed at deepening and scaling up its impact. The programme is led by international football player Dimitris Papadopoulos, who was inspired to create a football-based programme that would provide marginalised children with life values and skills affording them a better life with dignity and greater opportunities to develop themselves and their communities.
Objectives
RISE's mission is to empower disadvantaged children by providing them with skills and access to opportunities in order to build their resilience and thus the resilience of their communities. This second phase aims to deepen and mainstream RISE’s impact by:
- developing football and youth club activities in Athens to address youth disengagement, social exclusion and community-building issues;
- providing targeted dissemination/capacity building to sports, education and CSO professionals across Greece.
Project activities
- Foodball3 training and matches: Access to sports and motivation through positive role models (professional athletes and peers) for marginalised youth
- National football3 tournament
- Psychosocial and educational support services
- Youth civic engagement activities (local youth action groups, capacity building and youth-led civic initiatives)
- Community-building activities bringing onboard families
- RISE model transfer workshops (physical and digital)
Expected results
- 50 disadvantaged children aged 12–17 will participate in football activities, receive support and be actively engaged in youth club activities in the long term
- 15 children aged 14–17 will build leadership skills and act as youth mediators for their peers
- Five youth-led local initiatives
- Ten schools and 200 representatives from sports clubs, CSOs and schools across Greece will receive information, training and support in implementing the RISE model
- At least 1,250 children will benefit indirectly from transfer of the RISE model
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