Team India wins Street Child World Cup

Team India reigned supreme in the Deloitte Street Child World Cup 2010 after beating Tanzania by 1-0 in the final at in Durban, South Africa.

Members of the Indian team hailed from the remote village of Rurka Kalan in Jalandhar, Punjab and got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to feature in the global event courtesy of Rurka Kalan FC's collaboration with the UK's Khalsa Football Academy.

The week-long tournament, organised by UK Human Rights organisation Amos Trust, followed the ground breaking work of the Durban-based Umthombo Foundation with the teams being organised by innovative and effective street child organisations and aimed at formulating a global Street Child Manifesto, and launching a campaign calling for street children’s rights to a full, healthy, dignified life, as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), to be upheld.

 

Nine countries participated in the tournament staged to provide a platform to the kids for celebrating their potential and expressing their views on issues that mattered most to them.