Football team that wins

Playing football is useful for children with disabilities from a physical point of view because it improves memory and coordination, and at the same time helps them to socialize in a team. In the future, club members can enter the National Team of Ukraine and take part in Special Olympics, where football is among the five most popular sports. So, this year, Ukrainian football players were the first among 25 women's football teams from around the world at the Special Olympics in the United Arab Emirates. And we are sure that this is not the last victory, but only an additional motivation for the emergence of new Ukrainian teams.

One of them will help us create an online auction from the organizers of the first photo exhibition on skateboards in Ukraine - the DTF Agency team and the Sprite brand.

We have already found:
1) a coach, Maxim Krupenin, with experience in the children's academy of FC Shakhtar, as well as training with children with Down syndrome;
2) a place to train - the gym of the Pechersk International School (Pechersk School International).

Now it is necessary to purchase equipment for training, pay for work and additional training for the coach, and we also would like to arrange a small holiday for the children on the occasion of the start of the project.

An online auction will allow:
- create a youth football team of 10-15 teenagers (9-15 years old) with Down syndrome
- conduct 2 workouts per week for two months
- develop capacity and integrate children with mental disabilities
- develop coaching experience, which is underdeveloped in Ukraine, and distribute it among other coaches and representatives of charitable organizations

In the case of collecting the number of funds that will exceed the requested, we will be able to continue with the trainer for the next months.

The system support of the team has a positive effect on the emotional development of the players, will increase the sense of confidence and self-esteem, responsibility and work on the result. This will help improve the process of socialization of people with mental illness in society, more effective and efficient employment in the future.

For DTF Agency and Sprite, it is important to give people the opportunity to express themselves, to be real and confident in their uniqueness. With their support, we will show that children are able to change their lives thanks to their passion, all they have to do is add confidence that they can do anything.

Among the authors of the photos put up for auction are the Synchrodogs duet, the Gorsad Kyiv group, Alexey Kondakov, Lesha Berezovsky, Alexey Gotz, Vitaly Yurasov and Mishka Bochkarev, who work with street, art and fashion photography. You can add your bet on unique works on the do not Take Fake Facebook page, and make it if you win – on the website of the Ukrainian Charity Exchange specifically for this project.