Malaysia is country 15 for The Ball en route to New Zealand and Australia and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Schedule: Johor Bahru – 7th of May: Iris visiting friends (05/07/2023) Port Dickinson – 7th to 9th of May:… [Read More]
Author: Hanna Görgen
Helping hands help The Ball get around the world
Helping Hands Help The Ball Around The World: The Ball and Spirit of Football would be nothing without many thousands of helping hands across the world in more than 60 countries who have helped make our social football projects and… [Read More]
I pledge for Equal Representation in the Diplomatic Service
Equal Representation in the Diplomatic Service: On the 5th of May The Ball visited the German Embassy in Singapore and spent an hour talking to Ying Huang, Head of Culture, Press and Public Diplomacy. She signed The Ball and pledged… [Read More]
The Ball goes GI & MOELC
Goethe Institut Singapore supported Workshop at Ministry of Education Language Centre (MOELC) – 3rd and 5th of May: Our 2-day Workshop (3rd & 5th of May) with 19 young Singaporean German learners was organised and supported by the Goethe Institut… [Read More]
Fairplay with Lion City Sailors Girls Team
Fairplay with Lion City Sailors Girls Team – May 4th: We originally wanted to run a session with the defending Singapore national champion Lion City Sailors Women’s Team. However, it didn’t turn out like that. Many of the LCS players… [Read More]
The Ball goes Bundesliga
May 3rd: We had met Julia Farr at Borussia Dortmund in Germany, where we ran a sustainability workshop in August 2022. We reconnected with her in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in March 2022 with The Ball where we co-delivered a TOT… [Read More]
Singapore – Pledges on the Street and Celebrating a Birthday
Arrival, planning, collecting pledges on the street and celebrating a birthday: April 30 until May 2: In previous journeys, The Ball has been accompanied by various “ball-carriers”. Christian and Phil and Richard in 2002 & 2006. Andrew was joined by… [Read More]
Cebu – Sticky Rice
27th to 29th of April: Members of three JCI groups in Bohol passed the baton on to JCI Zugbuana and Jessica Resch. Jessica is the President of Cebu City’s Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Federation and therefore also a member of Cebu… [Read More]
Bohol’s Changing Climate
24th to 26th April: Heading south, our team of five left Baguio and flew to Cebu City and eventually made our way via ferry to the gorgeous Island of Bohol. From there it was a 30-minute taxi to our accommodation… [Read More]
Sagada – Lessons from the Indigenous
21st to 23rd April: Sagada is spectacular and spiritual. Nestled into the mountains of Mountain Province. It is known for its calming mountain valleys, cascading rice terraces, limestone caves, waterfalls and organic coffee. Add to that the friendly and staunch… [Read More]
Baguio
19th to 20th April: The Italian icon Roberto Baggio is one of the legends of world football, and he has nothing at all to do with the northern Filipino city of Baguio. But Spirit of Football’s ball-carriers Joaquin Nanez and… [Read More]
Gawad Kalinga – using football to give care
17th and 18th of April: An email reached us via the US State Department’s Sports Diplomacy office: “The US Embassy in Manila is currently supporting a soccer for climate action workshop with the Filipino NGO Gawad Kalinga (GK). The project… [Read More]