LEADING THE WAY IN CHILD PROTECTION
December 2011

Spirit of Soccer Founder and Director Scotty Lee delivered a series of workshops on Child Protection at the Beyond Sport Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. Child Protection is a vitally important issue to our Founder and in 2010 he formed a working group together with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), Beyond Sport, and streetfootballworld to promote a global charter for child protection amongst sport for development organizations consisting of a pledge and a code of conduct. Following the workshops in Cape Town, Scotty will be delivering a webinar for the streetfootballworld network on this important topic on January 23.
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INTERFAITH CAMP IN CAMBODIA
September 2011

Spirit of Soccer launched the first ever interfaith camp in Cambodia, bringing together 48 boys and girls for two weeks of soccer, leadership training, religious and cultural learning and mine risk education. The participants were divided equally between Muslims, Christians and Buddhists and many had never before interacted with youth from other religions or been involved in organized sport. The camp was a big success and Spirit of Soccer hopes to replicate the program in 2012. Rachel Haig, Senior Program Advisor, said "It was incredible to see the diverse groups from all over Cambodia playing soccer together. This was the first time most of the girls had ever played sports or ever spent a night away from their rural villages. They quickly realized that although many of their new friends were from different religions, their similarities are much greater than their differences."
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NEW PROGRAM LAUNCH IN CAMBODIA
January 2011

Spirit of Soccer is expanding our successful Sports Diplomacy/Law Enforcement program into Pursat Province of Cambodia. Six new police officers/soccer coaches will join the Spirit of Soccer team to continue using soccer as a medium to teach Mine Risk Education and Drug Risk Education.


ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE BAN CONVENTION
December 2011

In December Spirit of Soccer participated in the 11th Meeting of States Parties (11MSP) to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, a global meeting of more than 1,000 delegates from 158 countries, seeking to rid the world of landmines and cluster munitions. SOS demonstrated its MRE and soccer workshops for the delegate attendees. The Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen visited the SOS booth and commended the SOS staff on the life saving work we are doing for the children of Cambodia.