Streetwise Sports: Freedom Guys

StreetWise Sport Association has an active soccer program called StreetWise Soccer and it involves engaging street youth in Cape Town with soccer and life skill activities. StreetWise Soccer have two active programs running namely, StreetWise Soccer League Program and StreetWise Coaching Development Program.

StreetWise Soccer League Program is the first step for homeless persons to take part in soccer activities, as anyone who has a desire to play soccer is welcome in the program irrespective of their discipline levels and attitudes. The targeted players are from various shelters, soup kitchen and institutions dealing with the plight of the homeless.

The StreetWise Coaching Development Program was developed to assist youth that were identified from the StreetWise Soccer League program, to take the game of soccer a step further.

The program comprises of basic soccer coaching and life skill development. This is done in the form of monthly workshops whereby each team will have their team leaders taking part in the basic soccer coaching and life skill sessions.