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Football giving hope to homeless and unemployed people in Switzerland

Football giving hope to homeless and unemployed people in Switzerland

Being homeless may not be one’s fault, but remaining destitute could be translated to being an act of laziness. This is the stereotype that the Homeless World Cup team of Switzerland is changing through sports to overcome unemployment and homelessness.

L’équipe est majoritairement composée de personnes bénéficiaires de l’assurance invalidité (AI) ou touchées par le chômage. La sélection et l’organisation de l’équipe sont gérées par l’association Surprise, basée à Zurich. Cette association mène diverses activités, dont l’organisation de la Coupe du monde de football de rue.

Parmi les joueurs de l’équipe masculine suisse, le gardien de but, âgé de 65 ans, travaille comme vendeur de journaux de rue, voyageant entre Zurich et les Grisons. La Suisse aligne également une équipe féminine dans la compétition.

Henry Okurut / Uganda Broadcasting Corporation


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Football giving hope to homeless and unemployed people in Switzerland

Henry Okurut

My name is Henry Okurut, a journalist from the Republic of Uganda in the Eastern Part of Africa. By God’s Grace, I boast of 11 [eleven] years of experience in journalism having begun my career and practice in 2013 shortly after my graduation from University. During this period, I have accomplished various assignments covering news and feature stories in the general field and at some point in some specific beats. I have also profiled several personalities both of low and high esteem some of whom have formed the basis for follow up stories [Day Two Journalism]. Covering reporting and creating awareness on climate change has been one of my passions. In doing this, I have highlighted alternative sources of energy in Uganda other than charcoal and firewood; I have broadcast disaster occurrences resulting from environmentally unfriendly causes. These include floods resulting from increasing population growth which has led to encroachment wetlands, lakeshores and river banks. Improper urban management as well as waste management have also been produced and broadcast by myself. This I have done besides other thematic areas including the rule of law, road safety, mob justice, dispalcement, refugee occurrence as well patients’ rights among others. All these have been possible because of the practical skills I have gained over the years which I proudly possess. These include: descriptive news writing, video, audio and graphics editing as well as voicing.

Camille Lanci

Camille Lanci, 28 ans, est journaliste à la Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS). À la fois JRI (journaliste reporter image) et journaliste à la radio pour l’actualité, elle a également présenté des chroniques dans l’émission de débat Infrarouge. Diplômée en géographie et en management public, Camille a commencé sa carrière au Secrétariat d’Etat aux Migrations et à Reporters sans frontières Suisse avant de rejoindre la RTS en août 2021.

Henry Okurut

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