Backyard Football league Australia
This project's parent organization is Backyard Football League Australia Incorporated
It operates in Australia
It uses Football (Soccer) and Netball
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about Backyard Football league Australia
Social exclusion of rural males aged 17-39 is addressed throughe vents run as Backyard Footy, where every game is a Grand Fiknal. It introduces traditionally isolated rural males back into large Australian Rules Football environments and promotes networking amongst isolated males to help identify issues such as depression, financial issues, civics, mateship, building self esteem and generally lifting through sport a large basically forgotten group of males. Backyard Netball is run in the city of Adelaide to allow for girls from the country based in the City and dislocated from their traditional community to come together as "country people in the City" and network and build vital contacts across the State