Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem
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Mission Statement
Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem is a Jerusalem-based Football Club operating as a non-for-profit organization entirely owned by its fans, the club’s trustees. Since its establishment in 2007, each and every year, the fans vote and select the club’s Board of Directors whose members (volunteers) are responsible for its everyday management. The fans also approve the annual budget, which constitutes the economical frame for the work of the Board of Directors. Against all odds, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem gained promotion to Israel’s Football League Second Division (“Leumit”) after successive promotions (4 divisions in 7 years). Today the team plays in the Second Devision. Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem has an explicit social agenda realised through a number of influential initiatives which are closely connected to the team’s participation in the Football league. As a fan and as a trustee, being a member of Hapoel Katamon’s community means being deeply involved in its social agenda.
About This Cause
Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem is a Jerusalem-based Football Club operating as a non-for-profit organization entirely owned by its fans, the club’s trustees. As fans and as trustees, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s community members are deeply involved in 6 different social programs initiated and managed by the club, here are some of them: 1. Shekel Non Profit Organziation: The SHEKEL organization provides community services and leisure activities for people with special needs or mentally challenged individuals. Shekel’s football group, its leading program, had faced various challenges until last year, among other coping with a hostile and sometimes derisive environment. This year, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem took upon itself to host the program in its facilities and involving its players and own staff running the program. The group is coordinated by 5 club fans and two players participate in it every week, thereby spending a total of 15 hours a month of voluntary work. We provide: • The Club’s facilities and personal • A weekly training in the Club’s facilities • Dedicated training towards the World Special Olympics and participation in it • Free entrance to Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s adult matches in the Israeli League Our Goals o To socially advance disadvantaged children o To socially advance people with special needs and mentally challenged individuals o To promote equal opportunities for all Jerusalem’s residents o To enhance inclusiveness and community building Our Impact • Participants now have a safe, encouraging environment where they can play among equals, socialize and leave their worries behind. • The project enables its participants to cope with difficult life circumstances, negative feelings and low self esteem in a constructive way. • Our participants are provided with a friendly and sportsmanlike environment that substantially reduces violent behavior. • Our participants are taught to respect one another by promoting teamwork and resolving conflicts through patience and dialogue. 2. The Neigborhood League The Neighborhood league, established in 2009, promotes coexistence, tolerance and academic excellence through football. It is comprised of 14 groups of 80 Arabs and 80 Jews, disadvantaged children from poor neighborhoods, new immigrants and veteran citizens, Christians, Jews and Muslim. Today 160 children are participating in the League. The Neighborhood League consists of: o Two practices a week for each team with an accredited coach o A weekly tutor session in a learning centre o Monthly festive tournament encouraging fair play and sportsmanship Our Goals • To provide high-quality education for children from disadvantaged populations • To promote equal treatment regardless of socio-economic status, religion or ethnic background • To facilitate and enhance coexistence in Jerusalem • To fight racism and violence on and off the pitch • To enhance inclusiveness and community building Our Impact: “We at Hapoel Katmaon strongly believe that while today they fight for trophies, tomorrow they will fight together for peace. This is how coexistence starts.” - The Neighborhood League’s children with their diverse backgrounds are forming a unique and thrilling microcosm of coexistence. - Our Children, coming from distant neighborhoods from all around Jerusalem usually with no real chance of getting acquainted, are now provided with the opportunity of getting to know one another through Football matches, while building mutual trust and creating close ties. - Our children are improving academically. - Our children are educated to care about universal values such as pluralism, tolerance, equal rights and brotherhood. - Our children are taught to respect one another by promoting teamwork and resolving conflicts through patience and dialogue. - Our children are provided with a friendly and sportsmanlike environment reducing violent behavior 3.Collaborative Projects with Schools: As part of Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s collaborative work with the community, we are forging special relationships with schools that are both geographically and ideologically close to the Club. Among these schools are: o Givat Gonen High school in “Katamon Tet” neighborhood, consisting of local pupils and students coming from the Neighborhood’s surroundings, with the objective of integrating children from diverse backgrounds into the same learning environment; o Yad BeYad, Jewish-Arab Bilingual School ("Hand to Hand" school) situated in the southern part of the city between the Arab community of Beit Safafa and the Jewish neighborhoods of Patt and Katamon Tet; o “Denmark” high school located in the Katamonim Neighborhood , specifically targeting students from disadvantages population. The group is coordinated by 5 club fans and two players participate in it every week, thereby spending a total of 15 hours a month of voluntary work. Our Joined activities include: • Sports days held at Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem Club’s training facilities • Pupils’ involvement in the Club’s leading social programs and particularly the “Neighborhood League” • Training a team to represent the schools in the City Championships; • Classroom lectures by our players on the importance of sport in building healthy and sustainable lifestyles • Free entrance to Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s adult matches in the Israeli League Our Goals: o To provide high-quality education for children from disadvantaged populations o To promote academic improvement o To facilitate and enhance coexistence in Jerusalem o To fight racism and violence on and off the pitch o To enhance inclusiveness and community building Our Impact: • The projects create close ties between Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem and schools located near its facilities, linking academic excellence, teamwork, sport exercises, nonviolent sport and healthy life styles. • Academic Improvement of the children participating in the project. • Advanced well being and health condition. • Enhanced community building specifically in geographical area surrounding Katamon Neighborhood. 4. The Womans Football Program: Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s Women’s Football Program is the only existing framework for girls and young women to play structured football in the entire area of Jerusalem. Any girl from Jerusalem or its vicinity who feel passionate about football is invited to take her first steps either at the Club’s “Neighborhoods League" or in the Club’s girls' beginner team (ages 8-11). From there, they can progress to the Club’s girls team (ages 11-14), a highly esteemed team coming second in the Israeli Championship for the last two years. Today more than 80 girls participate in the Women’s Football Program. 20 fans are involved in running the program, each spending 10 hours a month of voluntary work. In the Neighborhood league the girls are provided with: o Two practices a week for each team with an accredited coach o A weekly tutor session in a learning centre o Monthly festive tournament encouraging fair play and sportsmanship In the Club's girls' teams' the girls are provided with: o Two practices a week for each group with an accredited female coach o Weekly games as scheduled by the football association. Our Goals: • To provide girls and women from all over Jerusalem the opportunity to train and play football • To fight the exclusion of women from Jerusalem’s public sphere by involving them in the city’s football activities • To promote equal opportunity in sport regardless of sex and gender • To enhance community building of women from all around the city • To become Jerusalem’s female football hub open to all girls and women Our impact: • Our Women’s Football Program and the Public Relation around it mitigate the dangerous impact of the multiple campaigns to exclude women from Jerusalem’s public sphere. • Our girls and young women are being empowered on a daily basis, while learning about themselves and their strengths through physical exercises and football matches. • Our girls and young women, coming from distant neighborhoods from all around Jerusalem usually with no real chance of getting acquainted, are now provided with the opportunity of getting to know one another through football matches, while building mutual trust and creating close ties. • Our girls and young women are educated to care about universal values such as pluralism, tolerance, equal rights, brotherhood and sisterhood. • Our girls and young women are taught to respect one another by promoting teamwork and resolving conflicts through patience and dialogue. • Our girls and young women formulate their own little communities, joining hands with their peers and learning to fight together for equal opportunity regardless of sex and gender. 5. Shuafat Neighborhood’s Project: Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem operates a social project in Shuafat, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem that suffers from high population density and multiple economic and social impediments. Many of its disaffected youth drop out of school and wander the streets, exposed to crime and drug abuse. In practice, 60% of people arrested in East Jerusalem come from Shuafat. The Shuafat Neighborhood Project’s objective is to assist in the rehabilitation of youth at risk from Shuafat Neighborhood. Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s club made a decision to invest in reducing violence in Shuafat by providing opportunities to children to engage in structured sport activities. The Club’s professional staff runs the program, spending 4 hours a week of voluntary work.