Creating Opportunities in Sports For At-Risk Children
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Since 2014, HBI has partnered with Foundation for Educating a Salvadoran (FESA) to provide physical education programs for more than 500 at-risk children.
This partnership creates opportunities where local schools lack sports infrastructure. The program works with public schools near HBI production facilities in El Salvador to help children of HBI associates as well as children in nearby neighborhoods.
HBI donated more than 5,000 Champion garments to the program.
“In Central America, playing soccer is an essential part of everybody’s childhood,” said Teddy Mendoza, “We partner with the FESA Foundation because we believe that sports is a great vehicle to engage with kids in our communities and keep them focused on their education.”
This year, 16 program participants have been selected to play in the El Salvador national soccer league, and one earned a full scholarship to FESA’s charter high school.
“We’ve repeatedly seen that when you give students a lift, you lift their families and communities,” said Ingrid Sanchez Landos, corporate social responsibility superintendent with HBI. “We are thrilled to help these student-athletes succeed.”
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