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Organization	Fundacion Tiempo de Juego
Region	Colombia
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By promoting soccer and funding basic schooling, Tiempo de Juego (TDJ) prevents children from Altos de Cazuca, Timbiqui and Santa Marta from joining gangs, consume illegal drugs, or become delinquents. The program seeks to recover fundamental values of society by applying the rules of soccer for peace and development: fair play, group work, gender equity, humble victory, dignified loss, tolerance and respect for rules. Since 2006, TDJ has benefited more than 10000 kids and teenagers.

Challenge

Cazuca, in the outskirts of Colombia's capital, Bogota, is one of the most marginalized, deprived and violent areas of the country. It is also home to one of the largest populations of displaced persons in Colombia. An exhaustive three-year study, found that about 70 percent of children and adolescents of the displaced population lack basic schooling and lack the tools to make a productive use of their time. This made them more vulnerable to join gangs, drug addiction and teen pregnancies.

Long-Term Impact

Tiempo de Juego's mission is to promote community transformation through sports, arts and technology, to promote the capacities of children of youth inspiring them to become agents of change. Its formative tools aim to generate competencies, promote values, and enable the use of free time in a responsible and conscientious manner, generating a positive and replicable mode.. Every year, TJ improves the lives of more than 11000 children in Cazuca and Cartagena.