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title: How love.fútbol tackles the Sustainable Development Goals — love.fútbol
description: A love.fútbol field is more than a sports facility. It's a community center capable of generating economic, social, educational, and security-related impacts.
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# [How love.fútbol tackles the Sustainable Development Goals — love.fútbol](https://www.lovefutbol.org/news/how-lovefutbol-tackles-sustainable-development-goals)

 Written by [Admin](https://www.lovefutbol.org/news/author/admin) | Nov 12, 2019 5:00:00 AM

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are part of a global plan to build a better world for people and our planet by 2030. Adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, the SDGs are a call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the environment. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, equality, and job opportunities while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

## OUR WORK AND THE SDGs

In our projects, we target the following SDGs:

**#3 Good Health Well-Being** , by promoting access to safe places for kids to play and lead healthier lives from an early age;

**#4 Quality Education and #8 Decent Work and Economic Growth** , by creating platforms for educational programs focused on job skills and employability;

**#5: Gender Equality** , by promoting equal access to sports at the facilities we build;

**#11: Sustainable Cities and Communities** , by creating sustainable community-driven sports infrastructure, developed and managed by local communities;

**#17: Partnership for the Goals** by promoting cross-sector collaboration to achieve these goals.

 Children during a community Build Day in Philadelphia (Tanner Duckrey Project). Photo by Playmakers Studio

## IMPACT

Since 2006, we have reached 42 communities in 8 countries, and this year we're executing our first projects in Tanzania and the USA. We estimate that our projects have reached over 42,900 kids.

A love.fútbol field is more than a sports facility, but a community center capable of generating economic, educational, and security-related impacts. An external consultant - The Analysis Group - conducted an M&E study in 4 of our international projects. The main findings reinforce this perspective: 

- 83% of parents and school directors reported better academic performance
- 70% of parents reported decreased drug abuse and gang involvement
- 67% reported higher economic growth

## RECOGNITION

This year, we won the Sport for Sustainable Cities & Communities Beyond Sport Award. It recognizes organizations that use sport as a way to make community settlements or cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable; to create, build, or improve infrastructure; or to promote inclusive and sustainable development.

"love.fútbol creates play spaces that are open, inclusive, and that since the planning phase, brings neighbors to the center of the process. Our project is a good representation of what we want for our cities: to be participative, people-centered, with strong networks that can collaborate to take ownership over the development of their communities", explained Development Director Breno Lacet.

## LEARN MORE:

[ love.fútbol receives award for using sport to make communities more sustainable ](https://www.lovefutbol.org/news/how-lovefutbol-tackles-sustainable-development-goals?hs_amp=true#)

[How we Work - Our methodology explained](https://www.lovefutbol.org/methodology)

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