October 20, 2011 | The second phase of the project Football, Learning, and Inclusion began at Cre-Arte in early September. In the project, implemented at elementary schools in Bariloche and the surrounding area, students work creatively and artistically on the topic of the rights of the child.

The so-called “third half” of street football is used for the creative content of the work. In the first artistic unit on “Me and My World,” students express through paintings what the world they wish for would look like.

Central themes are subsequently tackled and artistically dealt with by the young people. In the third unit, students work on the topic of “the right to play.” To kick-off reflection in the third half-time, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child will be discussed, after which students continue to work on the topic with paintings or posters.

July 28, 2011 | Shehide, from the Marquardt School in Plochingen, was inspired by “Through Life With a Ball.” She was especially taken with one young woman: Amira Muhammad Sulaiman Fahidat. “Because she said that you should never give up your dreams,” Shehide explained.

The first time she saw Amira it was on a poster, because Amira’s biography is part of the poster series “Through Life with a Ball.” In this series, the young Palestinian tells about her life and what role football plays in it. Because she is a part of the “Twinned Peace Football Schools” project, she had the opportunity to meet Israelis – an opportunity that Palestinians would almost never have in their every day life. But the Twinned Peace Football Schools manages to bring girls and boys from Israel and Palestine together. Together they play football and get to know “the other side.”

Then Amira came to Germany for the KICKFAIR Festival and Shehide, from Plochingen, had the opportunity to meet her in person. Shehide told Amira how impressed she was with her story and that she had a lot of respect for her dedication and courage.

Shehide wanted to share these experiences with her classmates and teachers in the Marquardt School and wrote them down in a report. At a teacher’s conference, she then reported on the festival and her meeting with Amira.

April 10, 2011 | The media packet “Through Life with a Ball,” connects football-stories with learning opportunities of a global understanding. Girls and young women from around the world speak about what the role of football is in their lives, how it helped them develop, and which challenges they had to overcome. Through a varied selection of biographies, and through intensive work with social street football projects in Cambodia, India, Israel, Rwanda, Chile, and Brazil, different topics and a variety of perspectives are opened for educational work.

"Through Life with a Ball" was produced in a common project by: KICKFAIR, the Institute for Peace Education Tübingen / Germany, Spirit of Soccer, SALT Academy / Cambodia, Magic Bus / India, The Peres Center for Peace / Israel, Al-Quds Association for Democracy and Dialogue / Palestina, Esperance / Ruanda, Formação / Brazil, Chigol / Chile

September 27, 2010 | In Argentina, young people are also currently dealing with the South African philosophy of Ubuntu (see report below). To begin the second half of the school year, three different schools held Ubuntu Weeks with a variety of workshops. The goal of Ubuntu Week is to work on the South African philosophy of UBUNTU in different ways with students through topics such as solidarity, respect, and cohesion.

With the aid of an interview with Desmond Tutu, students link these values with the content of street football and carry them over into other areas of their everyday lives. “Football cannot be won by one person alone, we are also a team off of the field,” Oracio (8 years old) gave as an example. These and similar thoughts became tangible for young people through the cooperation game, in which team spirit and creativity are demanded.

October 18, 2010 | From August 31 to September 9, the much anticipated meeting between student delegations of the Hans-Klakow School (Brieselang) and the Millahue School (Santiago de Chile) took place. Strategies for solutions on topics such as democracy and power, global values, as well as street football and conflict resolution were discussed in workshops, and commitments were made to new approaches for their work in Brieselang and Santiago.

In this work they draw on the long history of their learning partnership. Between the first meeting in September 2009 and this year’s meeting, both schools have been busy working in-depth in the form of project weeks on the topic of democracy in school and global understanding, especially surrounding the life philosophy of Ubuntu. CHIGOL and KICKFAIR accompany the long-term, laid-out learning process at the school and learning-levels.

At the center of both meetings stand the topics and interests of the young people themselves. The content of the workshop was documented in the song “Hoffnung Callejera,” with support from music educators in Brieselang.

As early as the first exchange meeting in 2009, young people from CHIGOL, together with the guest students from Brieselang, were already developing the first version of “Hoffnung Callejera 1.0,” which explains the role of street football in the meeting.

During the second exchange meeting, this time with more time and budget, the second song “H.C. 2.0” emerged. The young rappers wrote their own texts on topics such as street football and values, friendship, and social learning and recorded them in a small studio in Falkensee.

Following the meeting, both delegations developed the next steps over Skype, in which they committed to becoming school mentors on the methods and global content. Both sides agreed on the goal to further develop the content of the meeting, make a follow-up project, and let the entire school participate in the content.

30. August 2010 What does Ubuntu mean? Students from GLF schools ask themselves this question throughout the world. The discussions are based on an interview with Desmond Tutu, published in Learning Circle South Africa, in which he describes the vision for a peaceful and respectful coexistence.

Through the motto “my world is local – my vision global,” students deal with the questions of what Ubuntu means for the coexistence of people worldwide, for their own local environment, as well as what parallels this philosophy has to street soccer and how they can contribute to all of this personally.

31. July 2010 There had been previous talks between CHIGOL and the municipal administration about the content and aims of the learning partnership, as well as a possible second student exchange between Escuela Millahue and the Oberschule Brieselang.

Now, at a meeting on July 28 with CHIGOL, the mayor of Cerro Navia has said he will support this exchange through the Department for Sport and Education.

Eight young people from the district of Cerro Navia will participate in the exchange, which will take place from August 31 to September 18. One year ago the first exchange between both schools took place in Chile.

11. June 2010 The students of Oberschule Brieselang received the “Hildegard Hamm-Brücher-Advancement Award for Learning and Experiencing Democracy” on June 10 for the exchange project “Friends Play Together,” together with the school Millahue in Chile. This is the second prize the project has received. In May the students also received the prize “Fair pays off” from the government of Brandenburg and Volks- und Raiffaisen Banks.

Brandenburg’s Minister for Education, Holger Rupprecht, congratulated the schools for receiving the price. Rupprecht praised the acclaimed project as a model example: “Through intercultural exchange, the project offers the chance to discover and experiment with important aspects of local coexistence from a global perspective.”

Under the motto “Friends Play Together,” Brieslang and Escuela Millahue in Chile established an intensive exchange over the course of one year. The GLF schools meet on a regular basis online in order to report on project progress and to discuss the next steps within the learning partnership. The students also learned about the country, culture, and living environment of the respective partner school. In addition, they discuss the question of how democratic and peaceful coexistence can be possible – in both their local communities and globally.

April 12, 2010   From April 8 to 15, all project partners of Global Learning through Football met for a week-long international symposium at KICKFAIR. Together they discussed and decided upon content and conceptual guidelines for the partnership.

Concrete project ideas for 2010 and 2011, were developed for implementation, offering new opportunities for various exchanges between young people in the respective countries worldwide.

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March 27, 2010 Walking for peace from Berlin to Johannesburg, via Ostfildern, Valletta, Cairo, Assuan, Khartoum, Marsabit, Jinjo, and Kigali, they hope to arrive in time for the FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. “They” is a group of seven young athletes, artists, and actors from Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and Germany. Together they make up the “Caravanamani” (peace caravan). At each stop they meet with locals and talk to them about their home and their living situation, hoping to address not only regional conflicts but also the global dimensions thereof.

The peace caravan was organized by Espérance in Rwanda. Young participants from Ostfildern and Kigali had already been in contact since 2008. In the context of Global Learning through Football, a learning partnership was built up and sustainably integrated into the school life of the Erich-Kästner Hauptschule in Ostfildern. The students there decorated their school with expressive pictures from last year’s Africa Acryl Project to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere for the peace caravan guests and to promote the cause.

March 20, 2010 For one week, all classes at Escuela Millahue discussed the question of democracy within their school. In pre-school this was done through painting workshops in which both parents and students participated. The higher grades approached the topic through discussions. The aim of the project week was, according to Rubén, principal of the Millahue 405 School, “to reflect, live, and define the daily coexistence of all participants in the school’s life in a positive way.”

Escuela Millahue got the idea for a democracy week from its partner school in Brieselang.
During a visit, Principal Christof Kürschner described the project as successful. Oberschule Brieselang had previously developed a new set of school regulations based on street soccer and rule development workshops with the students.

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July 2009 Students of the Erich-Kästner-Hauptschule proudly present their book “Respect,” for which they received the student prize of Baden-Württemberg. Over the course of a year they worked on it with young people from their partner organization Espérance in Rwanda. The starting point was this: “What would our world look like if we would took peace as seriously as we do football?” Both partners wrote texts on the topic and compared their views with one another. The book was illustrated with pictures by disabled artists from the organization Cre-Arte in Argentina.

The positive experiences and excitement of the students from Argentina are a good example of a central tenant of Global Learning through Football: young people from around the world can learn from each other, develop common ideas and visions, and – through their projects and products – influence the global learning content of other young people worldwide.

October 19, 2009 Eight students from the Hans-Klakow-Oberschule Brieselang traveled to Chile to visit their learning partners from September 17 to October 4, 2009 at the Escuela Millahue school and partner organization Chigol.

After a long and intensive preparation phase, beginning with getting to know each other over the internet, the exchange began with great expectations, but also with a few worries. “I was afraid that we could not talk to each other. I don’t speak Spanish and the Chilean students don’t speak German. But it was nothing like that, we were able to talk to each other without verbal language and the Chileans were very nice and hospitable,” says Jennifer Tiede following the trip.

Street football was of course the focus of the exchange. On the first day we took part in the tournament “Peace one day” in the district of Cerro Navia. The streets were blocked, goals were put up, the field was marked, and there we go.

We were able to compare rules and discovered differences in playing styles as well as common elements,” continues Jennifer Tiede. “We got to know about life in Chile and make friends through the working together, playing together, and taking trips to see our friend’s families. We discussed stereotypes about our countries and people and discovered that we have a lot of things in common.”

Unfortunately the time in Chile went by too quickly. “The farewell party was a special thing for me. We planted a tree together and wrote our names on stones that we put around the tree in a heart-shaped circle. There was absolute silence while doing this and we thought about the good time we had shared. The two weeks spent in Chile changed my life; we made new friends who are very close to us now. I became more confident and responsible for my own life,” adds Jennifer.

Through the establishment of the partnership, Chigol and KICKFAIR succeeded in linking the project “Global Learning through Football” to two development projects: ENSA and ASA. Both programs are supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and are implemented by InWent. The process of preparing, implementing, and evaluating the exchange was therefore very well supported.

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