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ISF Cambodia earns status as accredited organisation

2023-04-07T15:27:50+07:00May 10th, 2021|

ISF Cambodia earns status as accredited organisation Sport plays a major role in ISF Cambodia’s (ISF) mission of alleviating poverty for underprivileged children and their communities. Our team of coaches unpack football-related concepts - like sportsmanship and teamwork - so that lessons learned on the pitch go beyond physical fitness and technical [...]

ISF Cambodia kicks off the weekend with a thrilling collaboration

2023-04-07T15:28:20+07:00April 29th, 2021|

ISF Cambodia kicks off the weekend with a thrilling collaboration We’re excited to announce that, in partnership with AIA, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club will support ISF Cambodia and wear special edition match shirts featuring our logo during their home match against Sheffield United on Sunday, 2 May at 19:15 BST (Monday, 3 [...]

Ian Thompson Memorial – ISF Boys’ Tournament 2018

2023-06-06T17:16:58+07:00March 14th, 2018|

On Saturday 10th March, 480 young football talents from around Cambodia travelled to the ISF Sports Ground in Phnom Penh to compete in the 11th annual ISF Boys’ Tournament, which saw teams travel up to seven hours each way to compete. This year, ISF partnered with the Ian Thompson Memorial for the 5th year in [...]

Goldman Sachs Gives – ISF Girls’ Tournament 2018

2023-06-06T17:17:23+07:00March 5th, 2018|

On Saturday, 24th February, almost 300 young female players from ten provinces in Cambodia travelled to the ISF Sports Ground in Phnom Penh to compete in the ISF’s 9th annual Girls’ Tournament, a momentous day for women’s and girls’ sport in Cambodia. Poverty, domestic expectations, cultural traditions and stereotypes present a major barrier to women [...]

Wheelchair Users Now Part of ISF Football Programme

2023-06-06T17:18:12+07:00December 18th, 2017|

As part of our goal to be truly inclusive, we are pleased to announce that ISF's Football Programme now includes wheelchair users. Ahead of the Football for Hope All Abilities Tournament on 23rd December, our coaches spent ten days with Jens Naumann from the German Wheelchair Federation and a group of young wheelchair users from [...]

ISF’s #GivingTuesday Campaign Aims to Feed 40 School Children for a Year

2023-06-06T17:18:35+07:00November 20th, 2017|

An estimated 66 million primary school children go to class hungry across the developing world, negatively impacting their cognitive function and ability to learn. In Cambodia, one in three children will not even finish primary school, meaning most face a life without prospects, opportunities or hope. ISF's first #GivingTuesday campaign aims to change that. Our Education Programme focuses on the [...]

Winner of First ISF Community League Announced

2023-06-06T17:18:55+07:00November 8th, 2017|

The first ISF Community League came to a thrilling conclusion at the ISF Sports Ground on Sunday 29th October. Tean Commune Youth beat Rolous Meas 4-1 to take home the league cup, following a month of games involving eight teams from communes and villages around Phnom Penh. ISF came in third, after defeating Black Empire [...]

Children Living with HIV Build Confidence, One Kick at a Time

2023-06-06T17:19:42+07:00November 7th, 2017|

Wat Opot, a community for children affected by or living with HIV, recently joined our Football Programme. Jaime Gill, a longtime ISF supporter and now a volunteer at Wat Opot, describes the collaboration, which started with a week-long course in football, teamwork and social responsibility. “When can we do it again?” That was what Kosal,* [...]

ISF Supports First Team of Children with HIV/AIDS

2023-06-06T17:20:19+07:00October 18th, 2017|

In August 2017, ISF began supporting a football team set up by Magna, one of the first humanitarian organisations in Cambodia to provide antiretroviral therapy (ARV) to children with HIV/AIDS. The team is made up of 28 players, 13 of whom are female. They train every Sunday with ISF’s senior coach Makara. "These children with HIV/AIDS face regular discrimination [...]

Football Players with Cerebral Palsy Make ASEAN Para Games Debut

2023-04-07T15:36:41+07:00October 17th, 2017|

After intense preparation, ten football players from ISF's partner organisations flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the 9th ASEAN Para Games. It is the first time the players had participated in the event and the first time they had travelled abroad. The team arrived on 13th September and spent the first three days training. Following the ASEAN Para Games opening ceremony on [...]

Bunleng – ISF Student. High School Graduate. Businessman?

2023-04-07T15:36:42+07:00October 13th, 2017|

When ISF made a video about its Education Programme in 2015, one of the catch-up students we spoke to was Bunleng. In the interview, he said he wanted to be a businessman. Two years later, he is one of our first three Grade 12 students - all pictured below - to finish high school. He [...]

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