OA, The Buried Life and MTV

Some of you may know, or are just finding out now, that we are the social project partner of The Buried Life (which premiers tonight on MTV at 10pm).  As a result of this, MTV has offered to help support OA’s project expansion in northern Uganda this year.  If 75,000 or more sign up for The Buried Life’s Facebook Fan Page (click here), then they will provide the funds needed to run a Soccer Camp for Peace for at least 80 youth who have been affected by the recent conflict.  In addition to the five-days of activities, the support also includes costs for training local leaders on soccer coaching, leadership and peacebuilding, and to equip these coaches (and the community groups that they are from) with the required soccer resources to carry on with the activities. For more information on the project, click here.

If you want to want to get more involved with what OA is doing, and help increase our expansion of activities in northern Uganda, here are some ways to do so (easiest to hardest):

1. Send around the OA website to your friends.

2. Join our Facebook  Group or become a Fan of OA on Facebook.

3. Watch our video journals from northern Uganda and send us your feedback. Click here.

4. Host a soccer game or tournament in your community as part of our Play Soccer So They Can community, bringing people together to play soccer so that war affected youth can as well.

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5. Think of something much bigger and send us an email about it: (oa@oaprojects.org)

We are excited to partner with The Buried Life and MTV and we hope that you get involved and support the war-affected youth as they rebuild their community and culture after the devastating 22-year conflict.