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Final whistle for GIZ’s Youth Development through Football (YDF) programme

Pretoria, 17 March 2014. Before leaving the soccer pitch for a final time, the Youth Development through Football (YDF) programme handed over their YDF Toolkit to the South African Football Association (SAFA) at an official ceremony held in Johannesburg on 27 February. The German Ambassador to South Africa, Dr Horst Freitag, and the President of SAFA, Dr Danny Jordaan, joined the official handover from GIZ to SAFA.
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Change Football and Change our Nation. Forever!


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YDF Toolkit brings together GIZ, SAFA and the Seriti Institute

Johannesburg, 26 July 2013. On 25 July, the South African Football Association (SAFA), the Seriti Institute and GIZ joined hands to ensure that the legacy of the YDF Toolkit extends far beyond 2013.Despite their different backgrounds, the three institutions found ample common ground to cooperate and create a powerful partnership for the future.
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SRSA DG welcomes home exchange program youth

Johannesburg, 09 June 2013.

Sport for Development is an emerging topic in South Africa that is gradually gaining established ground. Therefore 20 South Africans were given the opportunity to travel to Germany for a study trip where they received first hand experience of Sport for Development Initiatives in Germany that can have a huge impact on their work in South Africa.


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Willi Lemke visits YDF in Mamelodi

Mamelodi, 11 February 2013. ‘The main reason for me visiting YDF and South Africa again is that we at the UN believe in sustainability. I am here to see what YDF has been doing after 2010, and to meet again with some of the youth leaders that I know from the UNOSDP Youth Leadership Camps and follow up on their development.’ Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, made time from his busy schedule to visit YDF in the township of Mamelodi.
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YDF meets German football star Michael Ballack

Pretoria, 18 January 2013. On 18 January German football star Michael Ballack and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé were welcomed by German Ambassador Dr Horst Freitag at his residence in Pretoria. Michael Ballack is visiting South Africa as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador to launch the new UNAIDS ‘Protect the Goal’ advocacy campaign.
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Stories from the Field

Pretoria, 27 November 2012. YDF and the University of Johannesburg publish 'Stories from the Field', a collection of case studies on the impact of YDF on the life of youth across the African continent.   
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Leaving Footprints in Africa

Soweto, 10 November 2012. From 5-9 November 2012 the European Union (EU), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) celebrated three years of successful cooperation on the Youth Development through Football (YDF) project.
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YDF launches Manual for Disability Inclusion

Pretoria, 30 October 2012. After months of work, all those present at the first Youth Development through Football Workshop for Disability Inclusion were excited to cast an eye over the newly published short module. Hot off the press, the ‘YDF Manual for Disability Inclusion’ has been developed to provide coaches with the social model of disability, information about different physical and intellectual impairments, as well as with the knowledge on how to involve people with disabilities into football sessions.
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3rd UNOSDP Youth Leadership Camp successfully concluded

Pretoria, 17 October 2012. On 25 September, the 3rd UNOSDP Youth Leadership Camp kicked off at the Swiss Federal Office of Sport in Macolin/ Magglingen with 26 participants from 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Palestinian territories. After the successful camps held in Qatar and Germany, this camp again provided the youth access to training on how sport can be better used to effect positive change in their communities.
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COP17 follow-up events attract attention

Pretoria, 03 September 2012. The spirit of COP17 and YDF's Green Goal! event, which took place at the Conference of Parties in December 2011 in Durban, was strongly felt at follow-up events in Pretoria (15 August), Soweto (22 August) and Makhado (28 August). Youth leaders from YDF partner Altus Sport demonstrated how to integrate environmental awareness - as it is explained in the YDF Manual for Environmental Awareness - into football sessions with school children who had been invited from surrounding areas.
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Best practices from African partner countries

Pretoria, 22 August 2012. With YDF about to close Phase 1 of the project, it was time to invite all partners from the 9 African countries where the project has been active in the last five years, to a joint reflection workshop. A group of 13 participants and members of the YDF team met at Kwalata Game Ranch, north of Pretoria, to share their experiences and the lessons they have learned.
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'Moving The Goalposts' achieves great success

Kenya, 10 August 2012. This year, Moving The Goalposts (MTG) celebrates its 10th anniversary and looks back on fantastic achievements in tackling gender disparities through the use of football. In 2012, MTG entered into a fruitful partnership with the YDF project to offer girls new prospects by using football to develop essential life skills.
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Partners in Kenya look back

Pretoria, 04 August 2012. Against the backdrop of the end of YDF's first project phase, the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) and Vijana Amani Pamoja (VAP) invited trained coaches, managers, instructors and teachers from various organisations, community centres and schools to share their experiences and discuss the way forward.
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Training a new Generation of Role Models

Pretoria, 31 July 2012. As an accredited training partner United Through Sport offered schools, sports clubs and organisations an exciting opportunity to attend a Training of Trainers (TOT) course in the Youth Development through Football (YDF) Toolkit, developed by The German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and endorsed by South African Football Association (SAFA).
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