As we are facing challenges in fulfilling our vision of “bringing people together” physically due to the corona situation, the parnership consortium under the Cross Cultures Project Association umbrella, has developed new ways of organising our activities. Cross Cultures partner organizations from Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro, are organizing the YOUTH DEMOCRACY DIALOGUE PLATFORM project, […]
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Volunteers start training at OFFS in Ukraine
On August 17, a training seminar with volunteers at the Open Fun Football Schools was held in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. The program helps, among others, internally displaced children (IDP) from Donbass and Crimea, with the support of the European Union. On August 17 to 23 further 3 seminars were held where representatives from 9 regions (Donetsk, […]
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Training for 48 volunteer leaders and coaches of the OFFS project in Moldova
From 10 to 14 August 2020, 48 volunteer leaders and coaches from the Open Fun Football Schools in Moldova participated in two seminars, organised in cooperation with the Moldovan Football Federation, Cross Cultures, General Police Inspectorate of the Republic of Moldova and Terre des hommes Moldova. The Open Fun Football School (OFFS) programme aims to create a sense of togetherness […]
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Cross Cultures contributes to global webinar on Safeguarding Children in Sport
“Our approach is bottom-up and engaging the voluntary coaches as well as parents, schools, communities and national protection bodies in safeguarding children in sport and beyond” During the global webinar on Safeguarding Children in Sport organised by UNICEF UK and StreetFootballWorld the operational experiences and approaches on safeguarding children were presented by Hanne Lund Madsen, […]
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Rethinking the Open Fun Football Schools in Georgia
The Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) season has started in Georgia and is functioning according to the Corona guidelines. Normally an OFFS has 200 kids playing in 12 groups on 1 pitch. As this is not possible at the moment, Cross Cultures Georgia have come up with a way to break the football school into […]
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Dani Olmo supports Cross Cultures
”We must be conscious of the impact football can have” – Dani Olmo, RB Leipzig From now on Dani Olmo, RB Leipzig supports Cross Cultures activities by donating 1% of his wages. The 22-year old Spanish midfielder Dani Olmo says; “Through Common Goal I will support a project run by the NGO Cross Cultures Projects […]
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Summer E-camp – providing valuable experiences
As Cross Cultures has challenges in fulfilling our vision “bringing people together” physically due to the corona situation, the whole organisation has developed the Cross Cultures Virtual clubhouse as a platform for bringing people together virtually. To provide us with valuable experiences, a summer E-camp was completed in Jordan and Tunisia on the same dates […]
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Stories of postive change from OFFS in Ukraine
In a report made by Cross Cultures in 2019/2020 on the Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) and the School+Sport+Police (SSP) project season 2 in Ukraine, several stories of change were collected by regional coach coordinators. The stories cover positive changes taking place at several levels in society – Children involved, voluntary coaches, changes within the […]
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Cross Cultures Virtual Clubhouse
Cross Cultures Virtual Clubhouse is an initiative developed in light of the Covid-19 crisis as a result of the shutdown of all Cross Cultures activities. The shutdown provided a challenge of getting access to and being in connection with children and youth. We concluded that we had to find a way to communicate with children […]
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Cross Cultures Jordan starts fun outdoor-training
In Jordan, everyday training-sessions have been established according to the local authorities recommendations and Cross Cultures re-opening guidelines. The sessions are in different regions with 10 children at a time. We are pleased to see the children having fun training again. Photo-album from different sessions last week:
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