1GOAL: Education for all in 2010
2010-04-21 23:05
Dakar - A football tournament in Senegal will kick off a global education campaign linked to this year's World Cup in South Africa, the first time the continent hosts the competition, organisers said on Wednesday.
"1GOAL: education for all", a joint initiative led by the Global Campaign for Education and the International Football Federation, will get underway on Friday with a mini-tournament in Senegal.
The "symbolic tournament" will take place at the Diambars Academy, south of Dakar, a centre dedicated to teaching football to street children opened in 2003 by footballers including Senegalese-born French footballer Patrick Vieira.
1GOAL is intended as a global reminder that "72 million children around the world are still being denied the chance of an education", humanitarian worker Claire Delestrade said.
- SAPA