| Minister's Letter - February 2014 | |
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| Rev Peter Cornick | |
 The Street Child World Cup starts on 28th March in Rio, Brazil. Twenty- five national teams made up of street children will compete. The world’s poorest children will be able to say, ‘I am somebody’. But it is more than football. It will raise awareness of the extreme challenges street children face daily to find food and shelter and to keep themselves safe. The competition will campaign for rights and freedoms for street children; rights and freedoms all children expect.Methodist young people have got behind the event, seeing sport as ‘transformational and a force for good.’ An appeal to support the Nicaraguan team attending the Street Child World Cup encourages us all to do something to offer hope and joy to these street children – and so our ‘fun football match’. The Nicaraguan Methodist President says, ‘it is an excellent idea to send children to Brazil ... children will be distanced from gangs and drugs’. Hope indeed. Play or watch our ‘Fun Football Match’ and as you do so, you will be praying for street children and hearing them say ‘I am somebody!’ | |
