DIAMBARS
This project's parent organization is DIAMBARS
It operates in Senegal
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport for Education Award
More about DIAMBARS
DIAMBARS is a non-profit organization, created in 2000 by renowned football players with the support of several other champions and soccer legends. DIAMBARS uses the popularity of football, the impact and influence of football champions as a driving force for education. DIAMBARS also acts at the level of sustainable development in response to the lack of educational structures and the poor level of sport in Africa.
For this purpose, DIAMBARS has created a “sport-education model” that provides: Quality sport-education academies, which offer talented underprivileged children the opportunity to acquire solid academic training and achieve high standards in football.
Community-based social development programs, using football as a powerful means of achieving social skills, fostering universal values, intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and respect, to work towards the goal of education for all. Through education and top level sports, the DIAMBARS Institute aims to favor the integration and fair social development of young people who have chosen high-level sports as a means of self-achievement, without suffering by being uprooted from their home environment. DIAMBARS also acts at the level of sustainable development in response to the lack of educational structures and the poor level of sport in Africa.