Homeless World Cup - a PACE inititiative - Rotary District 9800

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Homeless World Cup 2008

The Homeless World Cup is an international sports project that uses the positive power of football to raise the issue of homelessness and poverty worldwide. http://www.homelessworldcup.org/

Melbourne successfully won the international bid for the upcoming competition and will proudly host the Homeless World Cup in November/December 2008.

The Event has been held annually since 2003, when the inaugural Homeless World Cup took place in Graz/ Austria. Since then it has been held in Gothenburg/ Sweden (2004), Edinburgh/ Scotland (2005), Cape Town/South Africa (2006) and Copenhagen/Denmark (2007).

Street Soccer is played on a pitch measuring 22 x 16m.
Match Duration is 2x 7 minute halves with 1 minute for half time.
Teams comprise 4 players per side on the court including goalkeeper, plus 4 flying or rolling substitutes.
Players can be male or female and must be at least 16 at a nominated cut-off date. They must fit defined homeless, or street paper vendor, or asylum seeker, or drug & alcohol rehabilitation criteria.
To participate in the Homeless World Cup, players must not have previously participated.

Homeless World Cup Melbourne 2008

Dates:

30th Nov 2008 to 7th Dec 2008

Competition Venue:

Federation Square and Birrarang Mar

Accommodation:

Melbourne University Colleges

Teams:

Approx. 56 teams of 10 (8 players + 2 Coach/Manager).
Nations from around the world

Sponsors and Partners:

State Government of Victoria
City of Melbourne
Macquarie Bank
Goldman Sachs JBWere
BHP Billiton
Jo-Anne & Greg Beirne

Volunteers

Volunteers are an integral part of the success of any community event. The successful delivery of the Homeless World Cup 2008 will rely on the recruitment, training and engagement of a strong pool of volunteers to fill key operational roles.

Approximately 250 volunteer roles will need to be filled and up to 500 volunteers recruited, trained and rostered across the Event. They will form part of the Event Team and will work across the Event venues including the Competition Venue and the Athlete Village.

All volunteers will be provided with:

Meal pack and water for every for every shift (above 4 hours)
Event orientation and training
Information regarding Event/Volunteer Policies and Procedures
Homeless World Cup Staff member as a direct report
A letter of recognition acknowledging their contribution
A virtual 'guarantee' of feeling very satisfied that their effort was worthwhile.