ML contributes to building a school in Africa! (05/05/2009 22:46)

ManagerLeague and Fifth Season have chosen to committ themselves to Diambars (www.diambars.org). The people behind Diambars are amongst others: Bernard Lama, Jimmy Adjovi-Bco, Sae Seck and Patrick Vieira. In Norway, the work of the organization is lead by Eivor Esaiassen. The board in Norway consists of Frode Kvaerneng (chairman), Vidar Davidsen, Aage Petter Christiansen, Torild Skogsholm and Jimmy Adjovo-Boco.

Diambars utilizes soccer as a means to help young people with their education and not least give some of them the possibility of realizing their dream of becoming a professional soccer-player.

Diambars already has an active school for boys in Senegal, and it is our goal to help them gather the funds needed to establish a school for girls as well. In the long run, schools will be set up in 10 African countries. In addition, "satellite stations" will be set up to allow even more people to take part in the Diambars system of education without having to be physically present at the schools. After the schools have been built, the idea and vision is for these schools to be self-sufficient. They have already sent some of their students to colleges and universities in France. A few of the Diambars "players" are also signed with French top-division teams.

The building of the girls school is scheduled to start in October this year. Our aim is to gather 200 000 euro (NOK 1,6 million) and we have already managed to gather almost 50 000 euro! Through the sale of used and signed soccer-jerseys from some of the best players in the world we hope to get even closer to our goal (for a presentation of what's available to purchase, go here (in Norwegian).

We believe that we will get good media-coverage with this, and ManagerLeague has already contributed enough to send a "Diambars"-team to Norway Cup this Summer!

We understand that not everyone has the ability to buy the jerseys (and other items), so if you wish to contribute, you can donate credits to this team. All donations will be bought by Fifth Season and passed on to Diambars. I will update the total amount of donated credits weekly in this blog.

Donated Credits at 17.00, August 3rd: 9798 from at total of 196 donators 

ALL DONATIONS FRON NOW WILL BE LISTED IN THE POST "TO ALL DIAMBARS FRIENDS",  AS WE NOW ARE TRYING TO FINANCE TO STUDENTS EVERY YEAR THROUGH DONATIONS (100 000 CREDITS NEEDED PER YEAR)!

THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR SUPPORT!