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Social activities summary

Since we started running the club, we have done community work in the whole country. Due to the hard times our society is going through, we have redoubled our efforts to improve the situation of kids and teens who live in poverty.

   OUR CONTRIBUTION
All the activities are developed through these 5 big programs:

1.- Xeneize Kids Program
This program offers, since 2000, recreational, sport and educational activities to over 180 La Boca children every week. The activities are: recreation in playrooms, introduction to sports (female and male football), drama and cinema workshops, and cultural trips. Besides, we have the Dream Workshop, where volunteers from the club and the SOS Youth Foundation try to fulfill the dreams of 100 children every year. This activity won the Ashoka Award in 2003.

2.- Social Responsibility Program
Through this program, Boca donates equipment and games to parks in poor neighborhoods throughout the country. These games can also be used by disabled kids. Since 2000, we have helped almost 30 parks of 28 cities in Buenos Aires and these provinces: Neuquén, Misiones, Mendoza, Entre Ríos, Córdoba, Santa Fé, Chaco, Tucumán, San Juan, Corrientes.
Boca also develops sport clinics with the participation of Boca players and children from the area. The sporting goods used for the clinics are later donated to a local NGO.

3.- Everybody to the Stadium Program
This project started in 2005 and has the goal of giving disabled people free entrance to Boca home matches.
From January through June, we have issued 215 credentials.


4.- Boca for the Kids Program
This program was created in 2004 and takes care of more than 250 children. The goal is to improve school performance and prevent dropouts among poor children between age 9 and 16 in Buenos Aires. The program allows them to do gymnastics and play football, volleyball, basketball and chess at the club for free during outside school hours. Kids also must attend school support lessons in charge of certified teachers. These activities are held four times a week from 2 PM to 5.30 PM from April through December.

5 .- Program of support to community institutions
This program has the goal of supporting community institutions through events and donations. The institutions include: Cosme Argerich hospital, Casa Garraham hospital, Social Foundation for Welfare, Liver Transplant Foundation, Volunteering Firefighters from La Boca and Vuelta de Rocha, youth diners from La Boca and Barracas, and aboriginal communities in the north of the country.




   WHAT WE PLAN TO DO
1.- Kindergarten for La Boca: By year's end the club kindergarten will be ready to sign up neighborhood kids. This was planned in response to the needs of many poor working mothers who need someone to take care of their children.

2.- In July we started the Boca in your Neighborhood program through which we will hold sport clinics in poor areas and at the poorest schools in the south of the city. Club players will participate and the sporting goods used for the clinics will be donated to community institutions.

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