At the 2000 Laureus World Sports Awards, Nelson Mandela inspired the founding of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation when he declared:
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.”
Since our inception, Laureus Sport for Good has directly invested over $150 million into youth-serving programs around the world — from South Africa to Hong Kong to Argentina.
In order to achieve real impact on the ground, we have focused our efforts and resource around those of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which we believe sport can most effectively be used to achieve.
Today, Laureus Sport for Good’s network of global foundations support more than 200 programs in 40 countries. All the organizations we fund use sport as a tool or intervention to combat violence, discrimination and disadvantage faced by young people.
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