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Spain youth stay with South Africa township youngsters during World Cup

After a careful preparation of many months by Red Deporte, our dream became true, at last. Since June 20 twelve boys and girls from different Spanish schools who took part in a competition known as Conectando Africa are in South Africa. There they live together with some youngsters who hail from some of Johannesburg's poorest townships. For the... AMPLIAR

Badminton Madrid Federation supports Zambia school

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Watching the world cup from a Uganda village

Six African teams take part in the first soccer world cup ever to take place in African soil. Throughout the continent people feel proud of hosting this event and try their best to follow it, although often it may not so easy. In Kitgum, a small town in Northern Uganda, there is only one place where people can watch the matches: the hotel Boma.... AMPLIAR

Solidarity thoughts and the hope of a South Africa trip

In past centuries, the 'civilized' societies have exploited the resources in African countries, focusing only on how they could benefit and holding the indigenous people as slaves, with no regard for their well-being and no willingness to help them to advance.” Julia Herráiz, a student of a high school in Cuenca and selected as one of 12... AMPLIAR

Diamond Child, a Sierra Leone school for the most disadvantaged kids

Goderich is known as Canada finest town. But oddly enough this Ontario enclave is also the name of another place that bears little resemblance with anything to do with wealth and tourism: a Sierra Leone village in the outskirts of its capital Freetown. Eight years after the end of one of the cruelest wars from our time that caused the displacement... AMPLIAR

How to construct a soccer field in Uganda

If we ask what the first thing is to do to construct a soccer field, the answer depends on where in the world we are carrying out this task. In the case of Orima, a small village in the north of Uganda, the youth that Red Deporte had helped to construct their own playing grounds began by removing the termite mounds. To do this, one must use a... AMPLIAR

No fine life in Finetown

Finetown is the name of one of the suburbs surrounding Johannesburg. The apartheid regime created a system of satellite townships where blacks would reside far from the whites-only cities, but close enough to commute daily to work in them. Despite the name it bears, life in this settlement is far from fine. The shanties in Finetown, as well as in... AMPLIAR

Sierra Leone amputee soccer team, icons of hope and peace

Events for Africa Day held in Spain this year were colored with a very special soccer team from Sierra Leone. All their players have lost at least one limb and run throughout the soccer field on crutches, shooting with one leg. The two goalkeepers have only one arm each. All of them are among the many thousands of victims of the war that ravaged... AMPLIAR

Conectando Africa twelve youth begin preparations for South Africa trip

Twelve boys and girls studying in different Spanish schools have been selected for a two-week trip to South Africa with Red Deporte y Cooperación and have started their immediate preparation. The participants shall leave on June 19 and during their stay they shall live with South African students from the Salesian center at Ennerdale, a township... AMPLIAR

Matches for integration and values at Madrid Champions Festival

On May 15 the Champions Week Festival began in el Retiro park in Madrid (on Fernán Núñez walkway), an event leading up to the Champions final which would take place on the 22nd. Red Deporte was there at a stand (to the right) so that visitors could receive information about our NGO. We also organized various competitions that emphasized the... AMPLIAR