ISF Cambodia earns status as accredited organisation
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 ...
Football Festival Spreads Sport for Good in Battambang
ISF Football Festival Spreads Sport for Good in Battambang ISF’s Football Programme team is back in the capital after four action-packed days of travel and sport in Battambang. Each year, the team brings our Football Festival to a Cambodian province to spread grassroots football and social impact lessons. This year they ventured ...
ISF Remembers Anthony Alderson
ISF Remembers Anthony Alderson We are saddened to report that Anthony Alderson, a member of ISF’s extended family, passed away recently in New Zealand. Mr. Alderson played a pivotal role in the formation of the ISF Football Programme. Anthony Alderson in 2007 sharing burgers with ISF football players This ...
ISF Contributes to a Plastic Free Future in Cambodia
ISF Contributes to a Plastic Free Future in Cambodia Earth Day may be firmly in the rearview, though here at ISF our commitment to positive environmental change is ongoing. Especially in the low-income neighborhoods which house our students. These districts in Phnom Penh often have poor waste management systems, resulting in piles ...
ISF Football Festival 2019 Heads to Battambang
ISF Football Festival 2019 Heads to Battambang Following a short break after our Youth League and All Abilities events, the ISF Football Programme team is preparing for football festival 2019. Visiting a different rural Cambodian province area each year, the festival aims to harness the power of sport to give children who ...
AIA-ISF Youth League 2018-2019 culminates in improved health and well-being
AIA-ISF Youth League 2018-2019 culminates in improved health and well-being for Cambodia’s disadvantaged children Over the past six months, 100 teams made up of almost 1,500 boys and girls participated in the AIA-ISF Youth League in Phnom Penh. This youth league, however, is no ordinary youth league. Its young, enthusiastic players comprise ...
Hong Kong Football Club Tour: The power of football to unite
The Hong Kong Football Club's trip to Cambodia demonstrates the power of football to unite Cambodian children’s charity Indochina Starfish Foundation (ISF) recently welcomed 78 junior soccer players from the internationally renowned Hong Kong Football Club (HKFC) to complete in the 8th consecutive annual tournament co-hosted between the two organisations on 2 ...
Football for social good: coach training
Football for social good: coach training Locations: Phnom Penh (March 18 - 22, 2019) Prey Veng Province (April 1 – 5, 2019) Last month, we launched a pilot outreach project to empower coaches in rural areas to provide access to sport and learning to socially disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Coaches in three ...
Ian Thompson Memorial ISF Boys’ Tournament 2019
Ian Thompson Memorial ISF Boys' Tournament 2019 On Saturday, 9th March, almost 500 young football players from around Cambodia travelled to the ISF Sports Ground in Phnom Penh to compete in the 12th annual ISF Boys’ Tournament, which saw teams travel up to seven hours each way to compete. ISF’s Football Programme ...
Goldman Sachs Gives ISF Girls’ Tournament 2019
Goldman Sachs Gives ISF Girls Tournament 2019 On Saturday, 23rd February, over 360 young female players from provinces across Cambodia will travel to the ISF Sports Ground in Phnom Penh to compete in ISF’s 10th annual Girls’ Tournament, a day focused on celebrating women’s inclusion in sport. “I believe that football is ...
All Abilities Tournament 2019
All Abilities Tournament 2019 On Wednesday, 13 February 2019, The ISF Sports Ground hosted over 200 players to compete in the ISF All Abilities Tournament. This inclusive football tournament, which offers youth with disabilities the opportunity to play sport competitively, is one of the few of its kind in Cambodia. Youth with disabilities ...
Smart Community Cup 2019
Smart Community Cup 2019 We were thrilled to participate in The Smart Community Cup 2019 which took place 26-27 January 2019. This Football-based Youth Empowerment Tournament welcomed 240 youth (120 male and 120 female players), aged 14-18 years old and focused on: Using life skills through professional youth football coaching and competing ...
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