PRESS RELEASE FOOTBALL AMONG TRIBES

PRESS RELEASE FOOTBALL AMONG TRIBES

FOOTBALL FOR HOPE FIFA UNI PAPUA FC

February, 5, 2016

Uni Papua Football Community is a football organization based in Indonesia with 34 branches football community. The 34 branches are included Papua, West Papua, NTT, Bali, Sulawesi, Java, and Aceh. Another branch of Uni Papua are overseas which will started joining Uni Papua in 2016-2017 located in Finland FC and in Philadelphia, USA. Uni Papua is also part of FIFA Football For Hope programme, which that supports NGOs that use football as a tool for social development.

Uni Papua is also a member of the streetfootballworld network.

The theme of the 2016-2017 Uni Papua Football Community programme supported by Football For Hope in Indonesia is: “Football Among Tribes.” The background of this program is knowing that many of our brothers and sisters in Indonesia come from different tribes and tongues and still live in the rural area and lack of social interaction and development access, therefore we created this program to give social awareness to all of the layers of society about this issue.

The aim of this program is part of ‘social inclusion programme’ to introduce football program of Uni Papua to our brothers and sisters, to give them football training equipment, to teach the children how to play football and incorporate them with some educational materials, also to share the knowledge about health, peace, and humanity. Uni Papua will giving balls from One World Football, game and play material from Coaches Across Continents.

The Football among tribes program will first start on 2016 in a small tribe called Elseng from 10th- 16th of February. The people who live among this tribe are called “Nomad” they never stay at one place but rather move from one place to another. Sometimes they will walk few kilometers from their tribe and we can find them in nearest village such as Kemtu Gresi. To reach the Elseng tribe from the capital city we need to take 5 hours car ride to Kemtu Gresi and then continue the journey with 5-8 hours of walking distance.

Uni Papua FC will support Elseng tribe with the voluntary act of help from Glaiton Batista, a

young football coach from Brazil, the manager program Yan. F. Pepuho, the instructor of Uni

Papua FC from Sorong, Frans Praibabo, and Demianus Howay, former Uni Papua player from

Maybrat who has been coached with the PSSI FIFA Elite and went to South Korea and Malaysia for coaching clinic, also few other members of Uni Papua FC from Yakonde village, Sentani, Papua.

For more information and update of our program you can simply follow us on www.unipapua.net or Leave a message through our email:unipapua.fc@gmail.com