The Chairman Rangers international Football Club (RIFC) Foundation , Coach Ebere Amaraizu has expressed optimism and positivity concerning the impact of their recently embarked upon activities in partnership with Cope and live mental health awareness foundation,CapioNG,Campus life Technology initiative amongst others.He made this known on 25/9/2024 while giving brief on the essence of kicks4children and street soccer (football)
league.According to Coach Ebere Amaraizu who also is an international olympic committee sports administrator and manager,the recently embarked upon activity with Cope and Live mental health awareness foundation like #KICKS4Children and Street soccer(Football) league will help to transfer the olympic education sports values such as excellence ,Respect and Friendship to participants.The #kicks4children is developmental and cut across children (male and female ) categories within the range of under 8 while the street soccer (football) league is for under 15 (boys and girls).The street soccer league for
neighbourhood will be used to promote olympic education sports values and will also be used to achieve crucial out comes such as learning ,education,health and positive meaningful pathways .It will be used to strenghten Neighbourhood resilience and create a platform of self discovery and improved mental health and general well being for these categories of persons.On the kicks4children ,we have the partnership of cope and live mental health awareness foundation and with strong support from CAPIONG and other partners for a result oriented engagement with our children within the ages of 4,3 2 and 1.The engagement will expose them to initial knowledge of kicks,enlist their interest, prepare their mindsets as well as helping to build their resilience and positive coping skills .It is developmental and also for ages from 5- 8 which is also a discovery stage.We have gradually started our developmental program at cope and live mental health awareness foundation Resource centre sports facility at independence layout.We have have also started our mapping and selection of players by our team of street soccer ( football ) league with our identified pilot zones /neighbourhood and in a shortwhile ,we shall commence the league which is an epoch making event.Street soccer( Football ) is important because it is an engine for self discovery and community resilience.Many international and National starts are products of Street Soccer (Football) that happens at various neighbourhood.
Another good aspect of this activity is that we hope to diversify the activitivty by delving into other sporting events under the multi sports activity framework of cope and live mental health awareness foundation for more community impact and for a greater society .Rangers International football club foundation is deliberate in its approach towards a better society .The foundation will stop at nothing with cope and live mental health awareness foundation and other partners for a collective building of a greater community through various life changing programmes and skills .He used the opportunity to drum for more support for a wider reach out of the community based programmes within South Eastern states and other parts of the country.
