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Becoming a Champion for All Children

Play Like a Champion Today™ works to bring a positive youth sports experience to children from the city streets of South Bend, Indiana to the village fields of Bugembe, Uganda.   Committing ourselves to helping children “play like champions” means that we are going to have to “champion” the children of the poor. 

Those of us involved in youth sports have, we believe, a responsibility for children’s welfare that goes beyond coaching and even character education. The Foundation for Child Development reports that children under 18 make up the largest group living in poverty in our country today and that poverty in this age bracket is the worst that it has been in the last 20 years.  Among the 21 wealthiest nations in the world, the United States ranks next to last on the overall index of child well-being (UNICEF, 2007).  

Children in the United States as well as children in Uganda need champions to support them if they are to become champions.  South Bend Police Chief Daryl Boykins resurrected the Police Athletic League in South Bend to involve children in summer tennis and swimming programs.  Keith and Karen Johnson created a football and cheerleading league in a gang-controlled Los Angeles city park. Notre Dame Athletic Department’s Youth Community Outreach Program Manager, Kevin Dugan works with Play Like A Champion  to use sports as a “platform” for  promoting human development in all aspects, economic, educational, physical, moral, and spiritual in the some of the neediest communities in the world, including villages in Uganda.   

To become a champion is to address the structures of inequality in which some children sit on doorsteps, while others play on travel teams.  To become a champion is make sure that we treat all children as our own, that we provide the spiritual as well as material resources for all children to flourish as God intended.

Play Like a Champion Today™ invites you to reach out to the neediest of children in our communities and beyond.

Will you share your resources to help needy children play and to play like champions?
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You can mail a gift to:

Play Like A Champion Today™ Champions for Children
107 Carole Sandner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Or you may make a gift on-line through Notre Dame Development. In the comments section under “Your Gift,” there is a place for you to designate the gift should go to the Institute for Educational Initiatives Play Like A Champion Today™ Champions for Children Fund.

Thank you for your Champion Support.