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The
4th HOMELESS WORLD CUP The Grand Parade, Cape
Town 23-30 September 2006. This world-class
annual sporting event will blaze the trail for
the 2010 World Cup from 23-30 September 2006
uniting homeless people from 48 nations across
all continents including, Afghanistan,
Argentina, China, Brazil, England, Ukraine, USA
and Australia. Mel Young, Co-founder and
President, The Homeless World Cup said: “Cape
Town promises to be the best Homeless World Cup
yet, benefiting over 10,000 players throughout
the world. It continues to demonstrate that
sport has tremendous power to change lives, to
change the world.”
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Social integration through sport
Jacek Kaczmarek
In order to understand the meaning of social
integration we should look back on period of
history when it had crucial impact on our
society. Owing to cultivation of Polish
tradition in hard circumstances, for instance
under annexation, Poles have not lost their
national identity. Integration of the patriotic
opposition allowed Poles to gain the highest
level of independence among other states of the
Warsaw Pact after the Second World War. Thanks
to strong tradition and solidarity Poles were
able to enjoy their freedom; freedom, which were
considerably limited, however, never fully
suppressed.
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Romana's history, goalkeeper of representation
of Polski.At present the vice president of
Sports Assiciation for Social Integration
"Barka", boss of soccer section.
I came
to the Barka Foundation in 1997 with a full
baggage of problems such as losing my house,
worsening relationships with family and friends.
At the beginning I did not fully realise the
seriousness of this situation. I thought that I
would be able to quickly solve those problems
and that they would disappear as fast as they
came. Despite of my participation in several
integration programs and interacting with people
in similar life situations, I was not able to
pull myself together. I came to realise that
alone I would not be able to achieve a
significant progress in my life. The objectives
which I pursued were becoming less and less real.
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