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Sporting Support for SOS Childrens Villages

September 13, 2007

London based English premier league soccer team, Tottenham Hotspurs, today released their new newsletter - “Good Foundations” - which details the work that they do in their community, and around the world.  In this magazine they detail their work with youth projects, and specifically talk about their

ground-breaking partnership with SOS Children’s Villages International in South Africa

In the article they talk about the innovative way that the team is sponsoring the village.  Whenever a player is fined by the club, that money goes directly to SOS Childrens Village to cover the running costs of the Spurs family home, as well as for community development projects in and around Rustenburg.

In other news, yesterday saw the announcement of the  “Gulf for Good Alpine Ski Challenge“.  This event will see up to 50 skiers of all skill levels from intermediate up, skiing an total of 1,000,000 metres downhill over 3 days.  The event will take place from March 9th - 13th in 2008, and will see the skiers ski in Verbier in Switzerland; Courmayeur in Italy; and finally Chamonix in the French Alps.  Funds raised by participants on The Alpine Ski Challenge will support orphans at the non-profit SOS Children’s Villages Ksarnaba restoration project in Lebanon.

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