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Children in Cape Town

SCORE staff facilitate the development process by training local sports leaders who implement activities and drive the sport and development process in their own communities.
SCORE's mission is to use sport to provide children and youth with valuable skills and opportunities that they need to succeed in life and contribute to their communities.
SCORE has set up new SCORE programs in Namibia and Zambia in partnership with the Namibian government and Zambian National Sports Council respectively.
SCORE's core programmes and key projects are largely funded by and government departments, many of which have been supporting SCORE for a number of years.
SCORE Namibia, based at it's Windhoek National Office, now operates in 12 communities across 10 Regions of Namibia.

SCORE is an international non-profit organisation specializing in community development through sport and recreation. With its origins in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town in 1991, SCORE now has a national presence across South Africa and Namibia, an office in the Netherlands, and has provided training and consultancy support to sport and development projects in Africa, the Caribbean, South East Asia and the Pacific. Mission: SCORE uses sport to provide children and youth with valuable skills and opportunities that they need to succeed in life and contribute to their communities. Ubuntu is an African philosophical principle that underlies all we do. Children and Youth are the main target group of SCORE’s work. Through our programming we aim to develop healthy, responsible, resilient and skilled young people that can take leadership in their own lives and in their communities in the future. Over time, SCORE aims to develop a self-sustainable, structured community sport system in each community in which we work. At the time, the project was ground breaking, a unique effort to give impoverished township children a chance to play against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa and use sport as the basis of cultural exchange. Juliet moved on from WorldTeach and in 1993 WorldTeach withdrew their support for the SCORE program. Howells officially re-registered SCORE as a South African NGO, and with the support of the Netherlands Olympic Committee and Dutch sports volunteers, programs began again and soon expanded beyond Khayelitsha. One of SCORE's strongest legacies was the establishment of community sports councils and organised sport in the target communities, as well as the increased involvement of girls and women. In 2005, to celebrate the Norwegian Centennial SCORE also organised an international Kicking AIDS Out football festival with teams from South Africa, Namibia and Zambia participating. The experience gained from this sport and life skills competition led to the development of the Cup of Heroes concept, and the first Cup of Heroes was organised in In the communities we initiated a holiday program implemented by community sports leaders that included football coaching, life skills learning and a football tournament. It was a microcosm of South African society, reaching out and finding one another through football. Our partnership with Hope Through Action resulted in SCORE managing this centre and gaining new opportunities to apply our experience and to continue learning by working in the different environment of a physical indoor community sport centre. During the last few years, SCORE has also focused on developing its training and facilitation expertise. In 2015, SCORE was finally recognised as an accredited training service provider in South Africa, opening up new opportunities once again, but also giving the people we train a recognized certificate when they complete our training. Though SCORE has worked primarily in South Africa, the organisation already began its international work in 1995 when Stefan Howells was consulted on the development of a new sport and development project in Suriname. SCORE’s work in the region began in 2000, when SCORE expanded its programs to Namibia, at the invitation of the then Namibian Ministry of Youth and Sport, and began the first exchange program of sports volunteers between Namibia and South Africa. Work in Namibia focused on school sport and developing a youth sports volunteer corps. In 2006, SCORE Namibia was responsible for the recruiting, training and management of volunteers at the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, Zone VI Youth Games hosted by Namibia in Windhoek. As SCORE’s experience and expertise was recognised, so opportunities to share that expertise internationally also increased. As a result, SCORE facilitators and program experts worked on projects in the Caribbean, Canada, various countries in Africa and even in Vietnam, as well as working with other NGOs and some government departments in South Africa, for whom we offered training that used sport as a development instrument.