Love Soccer

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Soccer training programme that provides opportunities for children with autism to interact with others and to enhance communication skills and self-confidence

  

Love Soccer creates fun and healthy moments for kids with autism and their parents while bringing them back to the community.

Soccer is a team sport that requires a lot of interaction with teammates and coaches. Using soccer as the medium, Love Soccer is a programme of sports therapy that helps kids with autism improve social and communication skills and attain self-achievement. It will also help parents of autistic kids know more about their kids and explore their kids' strength, releasing parents’ stress and anxiety. It will also bring insight into developing better coaching tools to help autistic children.

Love Soccer is a programme with a "Take and Give" concept: for every six autistic kids pay and join the soccer class, one free training quota will be granted to an autistic kid from the low-income group.

 

  • Click on the image below for a video featuring the venture, produced by a team of young people under the Social Innovation Short Film Sponsorship Scheme.
 
Love Soccer

Name of Organisation

Hong Kong Youth Soccer Academy

Approved Funding Amount

HK$100,000

Funding Period (Status)

1 year (Ended)

Impact/Outcomes

  • Completed the development of the soccer training class content and launched programme website
  • Organised 2 free soccer trial classes and 45 autistic children with their parents participated
  • Conducted 18 regular soccer training classes with 54 autistic children participated

Website

www.ysahk.com/lovesoccer