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RussellEbertHandball said:
Not quite China but getting closer and working on that theory that Port Adelaide - the club for all south east asia.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-02/power-heads-to-malaysia
PORT ADELAIDE’S community team completed a whirlwind trip to Penang, Malaysia to deliver its Power to be Positive program.

Power to be Positive is a wellbeing and resilience program developed by Port Adelaide with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute with a curriculum designed to teach young people a range of resilience-building skills.

The trip to Penang was supported by the Defence Community Organisation and the Department of Defence and saw the Power’s multicultural ambassador, recently retired defender Alipate Carlile, join community staff Ross Wait and Jake Battifuoco visit Australian defence students at Uplands International School and St Christopher’s International School......
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This was the first time Power to Be Positive was facilitated overseas, with Port Adelaide and the Defence Community Organisation regularly running the program in schools and from Alberton Oval during the year.
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-02/power-heads-to-malaysia

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My goodness. Our club's Community arm is massive.
 
OneGreatClub said:
My goodness. Our club's Community arm is massive.
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No our links are massive. This was put together by our links in the Defence community ...."The trip to Penang was supported by the Defence Community Organisation and the Department of Defence "


“It has been extremely well received by the community as a whole and the value that sport and the Port Adelaide Football Club plays in connecting people and community together is essential for supporting defence families based abroad.” “It has brought a lot of the Defence community together for opportunities throughout the week, and Alipate has been an outstanding role model and has connected extremely well with the young people and families.”

The Power’s community team also visited a local orphanage and special-needs school in Penang to spend time with local children and run Australian Football Clinics.
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This was the first time Power to Be Positive was facilitated overseas, with Port Adelaide and the Defence Community Organisation regularly running the program in schools and from Alberton Oval during the year.
 

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OneGreatClub said:
Same thing isn't it?
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Nope if we had a massive community program we would have gone there without the Defence Community Organisation. The DCO planned and paid for it with some help from the Department of Defence i reckon. That is the difference, if the PCL was massive, they would have done it independently of the DCO.
 
Pappagallo said:
Fages has been inspired by his visit to Sideshow Alley this week and now he wants to ride the Ringmaster's coat-tails.
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It will suit the fiveAA White Australia policy demographic, no doubt. What a pure insult by Porter though, to even compare it to the work and relationships and game building we are doing in China..just wait for the BBC Crows AFL games beamed to the UK...:rolleyes:
 
How embarassing.

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Fagan and Smart have arrived in New York to learn how major U.S. professional sporting clubs with locked capacity at their venues turn fans into paying members.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...k=7917132b5bac8255fde11e0f03910505-1473164892
 
OneGreatClub said:
It will suit the fiveAA White Australia policy demographic, no doubt. What a pure insult by Porter though, to even compare it to the work and relationships and game building we are doing in China..just wait for the BBC Crows AFL games beamed to the UK...:rolleyes:
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This made me chortle.

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Watching the ABC's Foreign Correspondent story on the "Generation Left behind" of Chinese kids about the 60 million kids who have been left behind in rural towns and small cities as their parents go and find work in the big cities. They don't take their kids as the government would charge them for schooling and health care and other services. So grandparents have to look after them or if the grand parents aren't well, then like the story I'm watching as I type you get to see a 14 year old girl, who since she was 10 has been in charge of the household as grandma is sick and she has 3 cousins to have to also worry about - its all pretty depressing. The parents might visit once a year, some have not visited for years, some make regular phone calls, some make them rarely. As the kids become teenagers you start to get friction with the grandparents who struggle to cope with it all. The kids become withdrawn, don't have much love or positive reinforcement or feel wanted. But the story showed a couple of NGO's who are trying to help.

But maybe down the track sports like AFL can help as they bring that Aussie team involvement and community spirit to the kids. Its why if we make inroads in Shanghai then the China strategy has many legs. As I wrote on page 84 of this thread President Xi Jinping wants to make China a world football power and it too can help. His goal is to make China a world football superpower by 2050 and aims to develop a national team capable of winning the World Cup, by first hosting a WC by 2030, have 20,000 football training centres and 70,000 pitches in place by 2020, 50m playing the game by 2020, but more importantly 100m children under 6 to be coached daily at school, and 50,000 specialist football schools by 2025. It would give those kids left behind in the rural towns something to help cover that loneliness of not having your parents around and feeling unwanted.

This situation, the one child policy where there is about 40m boys/men who will never find a female life partner, the daughters abandoned to orphanages because parents want a son, especially in the rural areas, kids not growing up with siblings, the spoilt little princesses and princes, are all going to cause massive long term issues in China, Sport has shown throughout the last 130 years or so of modern society that it can be a way to help overcome some of societies problems and build community harmony. The Chinese are not used to playing sport for fun - and many who do play sport have been put into these rigorous national sporting academies, where national glory is more important than fun. If we succeed in China - with the help of Mr Gui and his network, it will be interesting to see how much impact we have over the next couple of decades if we help expand Auskick and the game to schools across both urban and rural China.

You can watch the story here. Its tough in some places, but the last 5 minutes where a mother comes back to visit her son after not seeing him for a year, the first boy in the story, and says in a couple of years time he can move to the city with her, and also the work by the NGO's to help improve things for the kids especially quality and quantity of food they get to eat at school are uplifting.

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2016/s4533944.htm
 
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RussellEbertHandball said:
Watching the ABC's Foreign Correspondent story on the "Generation Left behind" of Chinese kids about the 60 million kids who have been left behind in rural towns and small cities as their parents go and find work in the big cities. They don't take their kids as the government would charge them for schooling and health care and other services. So grandparents have to look after them or if the grand parents aren't well, then like the story I'm watching as I type you get to see a 14 year old girl, who since she was 10 has been in charge of the household as grandma is sick and she has 3 cousins to have to also worry about - its all pretty depressing. The parents might visit once a year, some have not visited for years, some make regular phone calls, some make them rarely. As the kids become teenagers you start to get friction with the grandparents who struggle to cope with it all. The kids become withdrawn, don't have much love or positive reinforcement or feel wanted. But the story showed a couple of NGO's who are trying to help.

But maybe down the track sports like AFL can help as they bring that Aussie team involvement and community spirit to the kids. Its why if we make inroads in Shanghai then the China strategy has many legs. As I wrote on page 84 of this thread President Xi Jinping wants to make China a world football power and it too can help. His goal is to make China a world football superpower by 2050 and aims to develop a national team capable of winning the World Cup, by first hosting a WC by 2030, have 20,000 football training centres and 70,000 pitches in place by 2020, 50m playing the game by 2020, but more importantly 100m children under 6 to be coached daily at school, and 50,000 specialist football schools by 2025. It would give those kids left behind in the rural towns something to help cover that loneliness of not having your parents around and feeling unwanted.

This situation, the one child policy where there is about 40m boys/men who will never find a female life partner, the daughters abandoned to orphanages because parents want a son, especially in the rural areas, kids not growing up with siblings, the spoilt little princesses and princes, are all going to cause massive long term issues in China, Sport has shown throughout the last 130 years or so of modern society that it can be a way to help overcome some of societies problems and build community harmony. The Chinese are not used to playing sport for fun - and many who do play sport have been put into these rigorous national sporting academies, where national glory is more important than fun. If we succeed in China - with the help of Mr Gui and his network, it will be interesting to see how much impact we have over the next couple of decades if we help expand Auskick and the game to schools across bouth urban and rural China.

You can watch the story here. Its tough in some places, but the last 5 minutes where a mother comes back to visit her son after not seeing him for a year, the first boy in the story, and says in a couple of years time he can move to the city with her, and also the work by the NGO's to help improve things for the kids especially quality and quantity of food they get to eat at school are uplifting.

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2016/s4533944.htm
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We watched this too, their social welfare program for these children seem foreign & grossly under resourced.
The boy at the start got me emotional.
Stop filming for a sec & give him a cuddle ffs.
 
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