AMANDLA Ku Lutsha (a project of AMANDLA EduFootball)

More about AMANDLA Ku Lutsha (a project of AMANDLA EduFootball)

The original focus of AMANDLA’s education through sport programmes are children in residential care facilities such as orphanages, youth prisons, shelters for street children and refugees, etc. These beneficiaries have been significantly isolated from society on different levels: socially as they do not go through a normal socialisation process within a family unit; physically as a high percentage has been living on the streets with significant malnutrition, mentally as orphaned and abandoned children proportionally suffer more often from anxiety and depression; and economically as children suffering from familial breakdown are often more affected by poverty.

AMANDLA engages them in educational football programmes, hence offering them a unique opportunity to feel and be part of society again. Frequent and educational football programmes integrate them socially by creating a platform of exchange as well as a common basis with their peers and physically as they engage in a healthy lifestyle. AMANDLA’s Life-Skills programme as well as the AMANDLA Fair Play System particularly aim to compensate for a lack of family education and emphasize on conveying values and norms, supporting educational commitment and giving the beneficiaries a broader perspective in life. Interlinked these components immensely support the social and emotional inclusion of the beneficiaries.