A great “connection” between Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia
“I asked our colleagues from Tunisia and Jordan to not quit the Zoom-connection, and wait, watch and listen to us singing a Moroccan song. Once our group in Casablanca started singing and dancing, suddenly, the Tunisian and Jordanian groups started dancing and singing with us at the same time.” Sofien Zarraa The Advanced Level (2nd […]
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Jordan: Testimony from the field
Only 300m from the Syrian border, where resources are scarce, where freshwater is something only delivered by truck, football is played in dusty and stony desert fields, and smiles are once again spreading like rings in the water. Even though Covid-19 looms like a dark cloud on the horizon, the joy of being able to […]
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Morocco: Football and Social Innovation Hackathon
“Football and Social Innovation Hackathon” was able to bring together young people with project ideas in sport, civil society actors, and the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation. The main objective was to develop ideas for innovative projects capable of proposing social solutions that create economic values.” Sofien Zarraa, Cross Cultures representative in Morocco Football and […]
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Ukraine: 29 communities have already joined the project
The first results of the “Open Fun Football Schools”: 29 communities have already joined the project. This season the “Open Fun Football Schools” project was held in a new format, adapted to all sanitary and anti-epidemic norms, with the greatest attention paid to migrant children from the East and Crimea, as well as to the […]
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Cross Cultures organizes a “Vaccination Day” for Tunisian athletes
In the last few weeks, with the rise of the Delta variant across the world, Tunisia has been gripped by another COVID-19 surge. It is now the country with the highest coronavirus mortality rate per capita in the MENA region and Africa. The ministry of sports and youth has in collaboration with Cross Cultures’ youth […]
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Open Fun Football Schools in Moldova
“The aim with this project is that we use football as a place where all people can meet and have fun together! So we have to bring grassroots football and football for children to all Moldova. Bring everybody together to play and have fun together” – Anders Levinsen, Founder of Cross Cultures Project Association At […]
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Breaking Barriers for girls in Europe
“We’re out here, with heart and soul, but you can’t see us. If girls don’t see women in sport, they won’t stay in sport. They won’t learn that we can call the shots. We are stronger together, the world is ours. She belongs on the track to feel the ice. Give her visibility so she […]
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A tribute for Ljupco
Today I received the sad news of Ljupco’s sudden and premature death. It came like a bolt from the blue, and with Ljubco’s death, the Open Fun Football School program has lost a great friend and a personality – one of the people who has always contributed positively to our community and our common program […]
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Open Fun Football Schools + SSP continues in Moldova
Cross Cultures and the Moldovan Football Federation have agreed on a new collaboration implementing the Open Fun Football Schools + School Sport Police project in Moldova from 2021-2023 with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The primary objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of inter and intra-community relations and […]
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The start of our new education programme in Tunisia and Morocco
In the beginning of the year, Cross Cultures looked into restructuring our education programme to create a more coherent education that could provide more structure and learning so the participants could gain more advanced competencies for their current or future employment. As Cross Cultures recently received a TIBU Sport-4-development award in the category “Best Sport […]
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