Sunday, November 15, 2009

Empower. Protect. Inform

The World Cup soccer club offers a wonderful program that works with the children's hospital to offer programs about the importance of accepting people for who they are without judging them and without putting them down. This organization has done an especially good job with working with the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist to form several teams that incorporate people with Epilepsy on to their teams. They not only empower this kids by teaching them to play soccer, put helps protect them by offering a safe place for them to do something they love in an environment that is fully equipped to meet their needs. In addition to helping athletes with Epilepsy, World Cup also focuses on training other athletes about this condition and what do if a child may have a seizure. Also, World Cup trains their athletes to look after one another as a team, no matter what may be going on in that child's life at that time. By informing other kids about different conditions, they are training them to be acceptable of people with all abilities.
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6 comments:

  1. Kelly SomersNovember 19, 2009 at 10:43 PM

    It is so great to hear this implemted into a program. I think the statement about the Word Cup traingin their athletes to look after one another is a great lesson to teach.

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  2. Fred D. ThompsonNovember 20, 2009 at 3:27 AM

    I agree with Kelly it is great to see this implemented into a program. I believe that our youth of today need to know how to take care of each other. Learning to be not selfish is a very good lesson to learn.

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  3. NikkiNovember 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM

    I was not aware of this program; it is awesome! I am sure there are many kids who benefit from this kind of involvement.

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  4. PharyNovember 22, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    I too was also unaware of such program. I think it is amazing and so many kids would benefit from such a program!

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  5. AnonymousNovember 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM

    Im not a big fan of soccer but, this kind of program is awsome. To have players from the World Cup train others on what they do and how they work with eachother would be an amazing thing to see.

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  6. AmandaNovember 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM

    By the way, this is not a real program. I made it up for this assignment.

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