Our chronicle of our Kick Off Week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The most spectacular journey of our lives.

At The Huracan Foundation, we have always believed in the power of sport, especially football, to transform lives and communities. Our recent webinar, "Transforming Communities: How CSR and Football Can Join Forces for a Better World," reinforced this belief and left us inspired and motivated to continue our mission. In this blog post, we'll reflect on the key takeaways and memorable moments from this insightful event.

Since 2013, we've connected hearts from Argentina to the UK and beyond. Our global impact: 3,000+ children, 41 projects, 17 countries. On our 10th anniversary, join us in keeping the Huracan balloon flying high🎈🌏.

The launch of our New Jerseys and Jackets 2023 not only signifies a shift in our style, but also a step forward in fundraising for our upcoming exciting projects.

At The Huracan Foundation, our mission to transform lives through football and community development has reached new heights of global impact and engagement.

The Huracan Foundation, is thrilled to announce that it will be spending one week in Buenos Aires in late 2023 to celebrate its 10th year anniversary. This momentous occasion will also serve as the kick-off week for at least five new Project Leaders, as we aim to gather over 22 Project Leaders from past, present, and future projects, representing 10 countries.

At the beginning of this year we received two generous donations of used kit from Fernhurst Football Club and London Seaward FC which have now been sent to our projects in Uganda, giving more children the opportunity to get involved in our projects. We are hugely grateful to our Trustees and supporters who facilitated these donations.

On International Women’s Day, here at the Huracan Foundation, we are taking the opportunity to celebrate all of our female Project Leaders and our girls’ football team players and their achievements past and present! Over the years we have witnessed first-hand the transformative power of investing in grassroot football projects that keep girls in school because we know that investing in girls’ education can transform communities, countries and the entire world.

After an incredibly challenging year at Huracan FC Teso Uganda, with pregnancy rates running at 80%, many girls forced to marry by their parents and shocking numbers having been sexually abused, hear here from Project Leader Charles about his wonderful end to the year when his team of girls made the whole community proud at their first professional tournament.

We know that the last two years have been particularly challenging for the girls in our Huracan communities - in particular our Project Leaders tell us repeatedly about the shocking numbers of school age girls that have fallen pregnant during the school closures. So we are kicking off 2022 with a real focus on the girls in each of our projects and we would love your support to make 2022 a much brighter one for each and every one of them. We really hope that this year our projects will be the catalyst and the impetus to ensure that the girls in our communities do return to the classroom when their schools re-open and give them the equal chance they deserve to access education.

At the beginning of the 2020/21 academic year, The Huracan Foundation was delighted to be selected as Brambletye School’s charity partner, and we hoped it would be a record year for both of us - with over £57,000 now raised, we can safely say all fundraising records were completely smashed!

Becca is the latest recruit at the Huracan Foundation having recently joined as our Programme Coordinator. In this Q&A we will find out what her role entails, what she is most looking forward to and just what lengths she will go to to watch a Watford F.C. match.

To celebrate Volunteers Week 2021, Anna Guzman, who has been volunteering with the Huracan Foundation for the last six months has written the following article.

Would you like to join our small team, working with our Project Leaders around the world? If you’re really passionate about football for social change and believe you can help our Leaders achieve their goals, please check out the Job Description and apply to mary@thehuracanfoundation.org by Sunday 23rd May.

Today, on International Women’s Day we hear from two of our female Project Leaders, Yolkey who is running a project with approximately 40 young girls in the west of Nepal; and Deysi, who last year ran a project in a very remote region of Peru for approximately 30 boys and girls. In their own words, their answers to the questions below serve to remind us of the daily challenges both they and their girls are facing and we hope that their Huracan Projects really can help to play a role in changing attitudes and changing mindsets.

We are thrilled to have been selected by Escape the City as one of the top 100 organisations to escape to in 2021. If you are passionate about what we do and would like to join our team of Trustees, do please get in touch.