Youths empowering through football
This project's parent organization is Centre des Jeunes pour la Paix “CJP”
It operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport for Conflict Resolution Award
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Since 1996, the eastern part ofthe DR Congo was in the armed conflict. This was the cause of the degradation of the social fabric and had broken the harmony, peace and coexistence between different ethnic groups. People have developed suspicions between them, the high rate of HIV /AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, rape and violence against women has increased, the number of IDPs has increased, many others fled the country to become refugees in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The children were forcibly recruited intothe army and there belgroups followed by the abuse of drugs by youth, early marriage ofgirls.
Children have finished chose the street as their home, we also found a high rate of abandoned children in school andthe lack of jobs for young people. This observation had pushed young people from different communities divided gather around the same table in order to create a space of awareness of tolerance, peace andacceptance of others through football.