CAN Fútbol Foundation believes that everyone deserves to live in a clean, sanitary environment. For this reason, CANFF has made it a priority to initiate community service projects within their player’s respective communities.
We not only believes that it is important to encourage our student-athletes to take sports and academics serious, but we also emphasize the importance of being a good steward in your community as well.
Public Health Initiative
Goal: To educate the people of the Bay Islands about the consequences associated with unsanitary living conditions.
Core Objectives
- To improve the health and physical well-being of these communities through community service and outreach projects.
- To improve livelihoods and provide upward mobility for underprivileged people.
- To address and reduce health concerns and questions related to HIV/AIDS.
- To use soccer as a formidable weapon to educate and promote the fight against HIV/AIDS.
- To establish soccer and education as a strategy to educate our student-athletes and their families on issues associated with unsanitary living conditions.
What We Believe
Healthy children become healthy adults and therefore create better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. One of the primary initiatives of CAN Fútbol Foundation is to improve the health of the world’s youth through soccer and education. These two components together serve as the vehicle towards a healthy lifestyle.
CAN Fútbol Foundation partners with governmental and non-governmental organizations at national and community levels to bring practical solutions to these people who find themselves at the greatest risks. We know what it takes to ensure the survival and health of the world’s underprivileged youth of these developing communities and we have made it a priority to facilitate this change.
Strategies
- To implement and fund community service projects which will be designed and carried out by our coaching staff and student-athletes.
- To empower and fund local communities’ grassroots level public health initiatives.
- To encourage the community at-large to adopt healthier lifestyle by consistently and actively engaging in exercise, refrain from drug and alcohol us, abstain from sexual promiscuity, and maintain a healthy diet.
Some of the Issues
Washing your hands, drinking potable water, and using basic sanitation facilities can help prevent disease. Yet, every day thousands of people throughout the developing world die because of diseases spread by poor sanitation and unclean water.
Poor sanitation, along with malnutrition, are some of the leading causes of death for people living throughout the developing world. Although this is something that most people in the developed world take for granted, a large percentage of people across the developing world do not have that luxury.
Potable water, a good diet, and basic sanitation are imperative for survival, development, and growth. In fact, half of all children born this year in developing countries will live in households without access to basic needs such as sanitation facilities, clean water, and a steady diet.
Together, we can do our part in preventing many of these cases of dysentery and diarrhea, which results in so many people dying or becoming seriously ill.
Donate Now: It takes as little as $100.00 to buy the necessary tools and equipment to fund a public health project.
