The Neighborhood League operates youth football teams throughout Jerusalem, including disadvantaged neighborhoods, refugee camps, and schools. The project establishes teams for poor children who could not otherwise participate. Each team has biweekly practices led by a certified coach and weekly tutoring sessions covering social-emotional learning. The 180 children participate in monthly tournaments divided by gender and neighborhood. The project aims to promote values of respect through soccer and is run primarily by volunteers, including university students, with the goal of helping disadvantaged youth develop.

2. The Neighborhood League
operates football teams in
different neighborhoods and
schools throughout Jerusalem,
including teams from
neighborhoods and Refugee
camps in East Jerusalem
The project seeks to establish
teams mostly in disadvantaged
neighborhoods, where poor
children would not otherwise
be able to participate in
existing - and expensive -
frameworks

3. Each team of kids
activities include 2
practices per week, led
by a certified coach,
hired by the project
The practices take
place at the schools
or community
centers soccer field

4. At least once a week the team’s
tutors works with the team at the
school. The tutors are university
student and project volunteers,
and they help team members with
homework and other scholastic
activities. They also lead different
social - educational activities,
ranging from:
Human dignity, getting to know different
neighborhoods in the city, team-building,
imparting values of respect and caring for
one another, to providing tools for normal
emotional development. The tutors
follow a set curriculum and draws from a
pool of activities for the program, which is
supervised by advanced-degree students
and lecturers from the Hebrew University
School of Education

5. Once a month all 180 children
in the same League (boys or
girls), from 12 different
neighborhoods, participate in a
league-wide tournament. The
tournament is held on a large
grass field that is divided into 3
soccer pitches
Each month a new tournament
winner is crowned. The
tournaments are refereed by a
number of volunteers. An
emphasis is placed on fair and non-
violent play, and the referees and
coaches make sure that players
exchange handshakes before and
after each game

11. Co- Operation with FC Barcelona (spain)
Co- Operation with Israeli National Team

12. The management of the
League is composed mainly
of volunteers with a strong
desire to help disadvantaged
children with their everyday
challenges, and to contribute
to their development.
Their dedication comes from an
understanding that children are the
future generation of Jerusalem. Majority
of the volunteers are students from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who
view this as an opportunity to contribute
to the environment in which they live,
through the sport they love – Soccer.
Among the volunteers, men and women,
there are several of Arab students

13. •Half of the kids participate in the
This is the third year project are girls
•Half of the kids in the project
the “Neighborhoods come from Arab neighborhoods
League” Project is •About 80 kids are from Ethiopian
immigrant families
running •About 30 kids are from two deaf
and hard of hearing centers
•More than 30 people volunteer in
In the first year, about 100 boys the project on different jobs
participated, in 7 teams •7 volunteers are girls
•There are 6 Arab volunteers
Today, 360 boys and girls •9 volunteers are interns from The
participate in two separated hebrew University of Jerusalem
leagues, 12 teams each, total 24 Business management school
teams in the project

14. school@katamon.co.il
+972-507222784 (Liran)
www.katamon.co.il/schunot/
Best regards
Liran Gerassi, project manager