Annual Tournament
The Homeless World Cup runs an annual international football tournament to celebrate the work of its network of National Partners and to unite in ending homelessness.
The event is the pinnacle of all that goes on during each year as the Homeless World Cup National Partners come together to celebrate their work and place homeless people at the very centre of the solution.
Each annual tournament is held in the centre of a major international city and we use the event to show the public, politicians and people in general a very different view of homeless people.
The Homeless World Cup demonstrate very clearly the impact that has been made through using football as a tool out of homelessness: 70% of spectators changes their views on homeless people and homelessness.
The annual Homeless World Cup tournament enters its 10th anniversary in 2012 when it will be hosted by Mexico City.
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“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,—flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,—while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)