Amidst the hustle and bustle of what took place on Wednesday, a simple announcement was held in Taguig, with as the Fairplay for All Foundation officially revealed the nine girls who are going to represent the Philippines in the 2018 edition of the Street Child World Cup.
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| Team Philippines in the Street Child World Cup |
The nine were selected from a final pool of sixteen picked from all across the country, with each one having had the experience of either living, working, or sleeping in the streets.
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| Congratulations. |
The Philippines will be up against eleven other nations in the Street Child World Cup, which will take place in Russia next week. The girls are hoping to match the 2014 feat of making the finals, with the hope of going one step further and winning the competition.
For 2018, Team Philippines plays for the motto: when we show we care, everybody wins. Team Philippines wants to show that social issues like homelessness, poverty, childhood trauma, addiction, and many more are actually cheaper to solve than to ignore. When we genuinely care about the children around us, in communities like the ones the girls in Team PH have grown up in, we begin to see them not as poor children to receive handouts, but as investments. Children who will give back to far more than they get.
Helping Fairplay for All Foundation in this initiative is Nivea and the Kulczyk Foundation.
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