---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 9 Sep 2000 08:11:06 -0700 From: David Mozer <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [wa-afr] Fwd: World Peace Cup® -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> Is your group spending too much? Get a long distance rate as low as 4.9 ˘/min. Start saving now! http://click.egroups.com/1/9192/18/_/23029/_/968512268/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Possibly, something for the sports fans among us. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Subject: World Peace Cup€ ® To: [log in to unmask] From: World Peace Cup <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 08:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Please share your thoughts with us, and let us know how we can help, and how you are able to support our project. Also forward this message to your own network of relations and contacts please. 4 September 2000, we opened a temporary internet site at http://Sport4Food.tripod.com/Home.html with some first background information about the WORLD PEACE CUP project. Please keep in touch and we'll keep you posted. Anxiously looking forward to your response. Even a short e-mail message helps Yours Truly Willem Tijssen Project Leader. WORLD PEACE CUP€ ® "World Football Tournament of the Continents" The WORLD PEACE CUP€ ® is a concept for an annual football tournament between selected teams from all continents of which revenues will be donated as relief aid for all Third World war zone countries, focusing in Africa. The WORLD PEACE CUP project could not only attract the attention of the more fortunate west but could also give some extra hope to the less fortunate south. This would show that the victims of these wars are not forgotten. Football (soccer) is often one of the only few pleasures in the Third World that children are blessed with. For example, even in African war zones like Sierra Leone, you can find children on every street playing football and forgetting about hunger, suffering and war for a few short hours that day. Football brings fun to the people and also pulls them together. Sullay Kallon is an 18 year boy from Sierra Leone who has been crippled since he was 12 years old. Both his legs were wounded by rebel fire. He will never walk again. His only means of support is begging for food or small change from the travellers at Hastings Airport near Freetown to finance his study. He is joined there by about 10 of his friends who also have severe and lifelong wounds from the war. They all know the importance of education. With all the odds stacked against these children it would be easy to think that they do not have a reason to smile but they do. Just mention the word Football and you will see their faces glow with delight. Sullay says "even though I will never be able to kick a ball again, be able to watch football is the best I have". WEST AFRICA ACCOUNTS FOR AT LEAST 500'000 REFUGEES FROM CIVIL WARS In addition to the traditional tournaments like the World Cup, The European Championships, the Africa Cup and the Cup of South America, there is no reason why there cannot be a new tournament for a great cause, the WORLD PEACE CUP; "A World Football Tournament of the Continents". The WORLD PEACE CUP could take place in November or December when European teams have their Winter break. Most of the African football stars play in European competitions. To initiate this project, the thought is to start with a pilot-game in Spain this winter. This match would consist of African star players and a team of European star players. All proceeds would be donated to the Sierra Leone and Liberian refugees in west Africa. Perhaps some former top players or trainers would be interested in coaching these teams. We hope this cause will gain the support from the professional Star Players, the FIFA, the UEFA, and its members, the United Nations and other authorities, and the MEDIA worldwide. We are confident that great athletes who have been blessed with such talent would be willing to attend the delivery of supplies to these regions, enabling television stations and other media entities to cover these events, so that the world can witness the product and end result of their efforts being directly given to those who are in need. It would be an honour to have Kofi Annan and other democratic leaders to the kick-off for this great game. "JOY OVERWHELMS SUFFERING WHEN FOOTBALL BRIDGES THE GAP" € ©2000: EEC Events B.V./The Netherlands Phone +31 35-6563111 +31 65-4286625 Fax +31 35-6563007 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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