Synthetic Grass Football Pitch
Aschiana’s Founder, Engineer Mohammad Yousef and the girls’ Football Coach, cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony.
The new pitch has floodlights for night games and a new seating area for spectators. This helps Aschiana to hire out the pitch to other organisations and teams, at night when the children are not using it.
Organised sport is one of the most important areas, where these children can reclaim their childhood. The combination of sports and regular meals, provided by Aschiana, has also seen a vast improvement in their academic work. Most important of all is the spirit of fun it brings to street working children, who have had little provision for joy in their short lives.
This is how the pitch looked before. They played on loose dust and stones.