Slum Soccer, an organisation that uses Football as a tool for the social upliftment of downtrodden demographics, has partnered with Tata Trusts and Football Players Association of India (FPAI) for team India’s participation in the Homeless World Cup 2016.

Homeless World Cup is an annual football tournament focusing on advocating a global awareness of and a solution to homelessness. The current edition of the Homeless World Cup kicked off in Glasgow on July 9, 2016.

Slum Soccer is India’s Official Partner to the Homeless World Cup for a decade.

With more than 8,000 at-risk youth enrolled in 37 centres across India, Slum Soccer has specific programmes tailored around the medium of football that focus on matters ranging from literacy and gender equality to de-addiction and natural resource management.

The Indian teams for the Homeless World Cup have been selected through extensive trials from this vast catchment pool of underrepresented talent.

Abhijeet Barse, CEO, Slum Soccer, said “We believe that the power of football can equip people with the skills and confidence to improve their lives. We are glad that our partners - Tata Trusts and FPAI also buy into this vision completely.”

As the key partner, Tata Trusts has provided a bulk of the financial support facilitating Team India’s successful participation in the tournament. As the official kit partner, the FPAI provided the Indian men and women teams with high-quality kits in the trademark India blue and white colours – kits that the team members are sure to wear with grins and gusto.

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