The Right to Dream Football Academy is a non-profit making, fully residential international school which offers full five year scholarships to children aged 11 and above who are drawn from a background of extreme poverty. The Academy is focused on ensuring EVERY pupil achieves success through sport and education and that they graduate from the Academy empowered and motivated to reinvesting their skills, knowledge and experience in leading positive social development.

The Right to Dream Underprivileged Children’s Centre (UCC) is a drop in education and welfare centre for some of the poorest children in Ghana, many of whom are street children and orphans. The UCC teaches children the basics in numeracy and literacy, getting them to a point where they can then attend school. Local schools are then identified and the costs of sending the children to school are met by the UCC which also provides ongoing support to those children.
The UCC and Academy work in partnership together at a strategic and operational level.

Generations Charitable Trust and Right to Dream
Generations Charitable Trust has kindly been supporting Right to Dream for the last few years and as a result of their support, Right to Dream have been able to expand their vision and scope of their activities:

• Right to Dream have increased the number of pupils the Academy works with (third and fourth generation enrolled and the recruitment of the fifth generation is underway).

• The Academy has been able to review and refine the programme offered to pupils. Focusing specifically in the area of education.

• At the Academy School, new syllabuses are now taught on the international programme, a specialist remedial teacher who works with those children who arrive at the Academy with no previous experience of school has been recruited, and the Academy has established a vocational programme aimed at offering our graduates the opportunity to use their Academy education and skills to develop a vocation in the sports industry.

• Building of the new, Right to Dream multi-sport Academy is underway (Right to Dream currently rent their football academy facilities). The first phase of construction will be complete by July 2009 (including school, new dormitories and training facilities on-site).

• The move to the new Academy, has enabled Right to Dream to explore the viability of establishing other sports programmes (girls football, basketball, tennis, athletics, boxing and golf).

• Right to Dream have been able to further develop the partnership between the Academy and the UCC, for example now the Academy pupils assist with teaching on a weekly basis at the UCC.

• At the UCC, a permanent home has been found for the centre which allows a number of the homeless children to live on-site, as well as providing flexible teaching spaces which meet the needs of the children attending the centre.

For more information visit their website: www.righttodream.com.