{"id":859,"date":"2014-07-11T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/globalhealth\/?p=859"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:24:53","slug":"playing-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/2014\/07\/11\/playing-for-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Susan Green<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A soccer tournament happening this week in Brazil has the potential to change the lives of its participants, and it\u2019s not the World Cup. As that more famous tournament winds down, Football for Hope will give teenagers from 27 countries a chance to learn more about effecting positive change in communities and, of course, to play some soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two nongovernmental organizations were invited by FIFA to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/organisation\/sustainability\/football-for-hope.html\" target=\"_blank\">Football for Hope festivities<\/a> and be part of the World Cup experience, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grassrootsoccer.org\" target=\"_blank\">Grassroot Soccer<\/a>, which was founded by Tommy Clark, MD (D\u201992, Med \u201901). For more than 10 years, Grassroot Soccer has been integrating the universal appeal of soccer with evidence-based HIV prevention and life-skills programs to give young Africans the knowledge and support they need to live healthy, HIV-free lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrassroot Soccer is honored to have been chosen\u2014the FIFA Football for Hope Festival is a terrific opportunity for our young leaders,\u201d says Clark. \u201cI believe it will help inspire all of our participants.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/playing-for-hope\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of the World Cup, young soccer fans representing Grassroot Soccer, a nonprofit organization founded by Tommy Clark (D&#8217;92, Med&#8217;01), have had the chance to learn about creating positive change in their community and, of course, to play some soccer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,31,32],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-south-africa","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe","author-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}