PlayOnside - Annual Report 2018

Annual Report FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

2018

GENDER EQUALITY

SOCIAL INTEGRATION

EMPOWERMENT

Closing the gender gap through football

Bringing the communities together on the football field

Empowering young local leaders, through capacity building programs

Table of Contents About PlayOnside 3

PlayOnsides Objectives 4 Noh Bo Football Festival 8

StarFlower Project 6 Kawkareik Summer School 10

Green Island 14

PlayOnside Girls Team 16 Pah Deh School 18

Minmahaw Project 21

PFA Coaching Training 23

JES Project 22 World Cup of Values 24

The Rice Project 25

Rainy Season Tournament 26 Buku FC 31

New Faces 34 Special Thanks 38

Wonderfruit 17

Life-Skills Curriculum 29

Mingalarbar Mae Sot League 32 Financial Report 35

About PlayOnside PlayOnside is a non-governmental organization based in the Thai border town, Mae Sot on the eastern border towards Burma. PlayOnside use the power of football to educate and empower Burmese refugees and migrants displaced in Thailand. Burma has experienced one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world with internal conflict contributing to thousands of civilian casualties, forced displacement and resettlement in other countries. PlayOnside was founded in 2013, and has steadily grown and expanded its reach. Now, every weekend around 1000 children from 27 different migrant schools gather to play, learn and compete while making new friends and expanding their network in the process.Â

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PlayOnsides Objectives

PlayOnside’s main objectives are Gender Equality, Social Inclusion and Empowerment, and all PlayOnside projects focus on at least one of these core objectives.

Gender Equality With many new schools now requesting to join the program, PlayOnside can make some requests back to the schools. One of the request is to ask them to create girls teams. By close communication with the teachers and headmasters we encourage them to give the girls the same opportunities as the boys, and we believe we have been able to change the way some of the local communities look at girls’ football.

The Gender Equality objective has been highly successful, and we will continue to empower and promote girls participation in the future.

Social Integration Mae Sot is a Thai city with a substantial migrant/refugee population.

The city is divided culturally, ethnically, and socioeconomically.

Nevertheless, football is a perfect tool to bring the migrant-host communities together and to tear down the walls hindering social cohesion.

Through different events, we involve the different communities, and giving the children the equal opportunities regardless of background.

Football integration clinics and football festivals that PlayOnside host on a regular basis give the children the plattform to create new friendship and new network with children from different communities or different backgrounds.

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Empowerment Football can be a powerful tool for empowerment, both on a community level and on an individual level.

Football empowers the community; they get a feeling of belonging, and proudness of participating. It empowers the children, as they improve their skills and gain confidence and recognition. For the coaches/teachers it is about giving them the tools to implement the PlayOnside program. Through the PlayOnside Capacity Building Program, young local leaders learn about the “soft� values of football like fair play, respect and tolerance. The Capacity Building Program aims to highlight the role of the coach as a role model and an inspiration for the children. By equipping coaches with different tools, they are capable of implementing these values in practice.

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Star Flower Project In marginalized areas and communities, facing poverty, conflict and lack of opportunities one group is particularly vulnerable. Children with physical and mental disabilities. More than 100 million children worldwide suffers from disabilities and the majority of them live in developing countries.

They face different barriers when it comes to access to education, play and participation: Lack of qualified personnel like specially trained teachers, communities with inadequate knowledge regarding medical conditions, lack of resources to provide individual follow-up,

and social stigma and cultural barriers from the local communities.

In Mae Sot, we have a special program for children with special needs. Star Flower Learning Center is supported by Burmese Migrant Workers Education Committee, and provides education for 28 children with different medical conditions.

For two years, PlayOnside has provided regular football activities for this group of children. By creating a safe space with access to recreational sport

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activities, the children are given valuable and individually adapted physical training.

We focus on different activity-based leadership skills to increase selfconfidence, self-esteem and self-efficiency among the children. One of the main objective of the Star Flower Football Project is to increase the visibility of the children with disabilities in their own local communities, to dispel misconceptions regarding physical or mental impairment in the community.

Even though they do not participate in our regular football tournaments, they take part in different football festivals and closing ceremonies, events where the atmosphere is less competitive. These events functions as a platform for participation on equal terms as the rest of the children in our program, and help break down social barriers.

The regularity of the Star Flower project has shown a tremendous positive effect. After two years, we are thrilled to see clear behavioral and physical improvement for most of the participants, and we look forward to see this special group of children further grown in the future.

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Noh Boh Football Festival

Approximately 100 kilometers north of Mae Sot, hidden in the lush jungle on the banks of the Moei River separating Thailand from Burma, is the small Karen village Noh Bo. In March, it was time for the spectacular Noh Bo Football Festival!

As schools in Mae Sot are closed for the summer, we took the opportunity to hit the road, packed with balls flags and cones, and visit this beautiful village for the PlayOnside Summer Football Festival.

Noh Bo is home to around 3000 villagers, most of them Burmese Karen, having fled the conflict ant civil war in their homeland. This village has a special place in the PlayOnside heart.

We visit the village regularly on our monthly rice-trips, and previously we have arranged different competitions in the village, last time the Esperanรงa Football Camp in 2016.

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The festival was for boys and girls between 9 and 14 years of age, and this time, we wanted to focus on social inclusion, bringing children from different schools, both on the Thai side of the border, but also children living in the remote jungle on the Burma side.

Sixty children from three different schools in Karen State came across the border for three days to join this magnificent event. In addition, children from Mae Salit, another small border village, joined the festival, plus around 100 children residing in Noh Bo. Many of the children especially from the Burma side had never had the opportunity to play football before, let alone participate on anything like this.

Many had never seen a white person before, and we needed some time to break down the shyness and cultural barriers. Every “high-five� was a fight to get because of shyness and unawareness of how to deal with the situation.

However, three days sharing 24 hours together is a long time to get to know each other and to warm up, so towards the last few days of the tournament, the self-confidence was on a totally different level then when we arrived. This is due to a PlayOnside-team capable of making the children feel safe and comfortable, and it was such a great learning experience for us as well.

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Kawkareik Summer School Normally April is a holiday period for PlayOnside. The schools are closed and PlayOnside stop the training at the different migrant learning centers.

However, this year we decided it was time to do something different. So we pack our bags, filled the car with balls, cones books, pens and crayons, and set off to the heart of Karen State, for a one month Summer School.

April, with its high temperatures together with the celebration of the Buddhist New Year is the month where schools are closed in both Thailand and Myanmar.

During these Summer Holidays many of the migrant children go back to Myanmar leaving Mae Sot looking like a ghost town, missing the trucks packed with children screaming and waving on the way to school, the color of the different students´ uniforms and the vibes of this special bordering town.

On the other side of the border, hundreds of villages with lots of children with nothing to do during these months await for an opportunity to improve their education.

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Thus, we decided this year to close down the office in Mae Sot, load the truck, pack our staff and cross the river towards Thone See Thone Sue a small village near Kawkareik, in Karen State to organize our 1st Summer School.

The Kawkareik Summer School was an English immersion course that involved during five weeks, 120 students from three different villages. Under the values of integration, gender equality and respect, students had the opportunity to learn English through a wide variety of subjects.

The main topic of the Summer School was environment. This is a very big issue in these communities where especially the sudden use of plastic and the lack of knowledge and resources to process it after its use leaves rice fields, roads and rivers full of this material. Every day and through the different subjects, students got the chance to analyze the different problems about the environment, the reason why they must protect it and actions that they can take to improve this situation.

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Apart from the regular subjects like Math, Science, Biology and English, we wanted to focus on creativity. Other classes therefore included Football, Meditation, Dance and Music took part of this program. At PlayOnside, we believe in the need of encouraging teamwork, debate and discussion, and promoting critical thinking. Lessons were prepared carefully in order to promote these principals. Participation, group activities and presentations were the core of the lessons. Most of the students showed a big lack of confidence on the first days, but over the days and weeks, we can say that the improvements were fantastic.

Students experienced how to learn while having fun. In most of these villages, the teaching methods are based on repetition and memorization. Students have no room to share their opinions, to debate and to find and show their potential and skills. Through the variety of subjects we had the chance not only to keep the attention but also to offer the students the opportunity to show their best skills. Some of them showed an amazing talent in Math when others were great at Music or any other subject. This way of learning, brings confidence to the students allowing all of them to find their best abilities..

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Leadership was also an important part of the Summer School. Each group had three leaders in charge of different aspects of the daily running of the school. Through these commitments, students understand that they are also an important part of the school as well as learning how to organize themselves.

After five amazing weeks, with lots of smiles and improvements of the students it was time to not say goodbye, but see you again next year.

We look forward to the Kawkereik Summer School 2019.

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Green Island

"The Green Island� is a collaborative project between our friends at Estudio Cavernas, PlayOnside, financed by our partner, the international renewable energy company SGRE. We have for several years worked together with Sky Blue School, a migrant learning center at the garbage dump community in Mae Sot. The children growing up at the dump site, face more challenges then other migrant children in Mae Sot. The dropout rate from school is higher, teenage pregnancies are common, and their living conditions are worse than for many others.

When Estudio Cavernas and PlayOnside successfully applied for

funds through the Social Action Initiative from SGRE, we immediately started the dialogue with the stakeholders in the local community.

We wanted to build a community center a football field, playground and community garden. The idea is that this area will function as a Green Island inside the garbage dump, filled with after school activities, games and community programs, run by PlayOnside.

The project consist of two phases.

The first phase is the construction phase, implemented by Estudio Cavernas. This phase of the project started in October 2018. Estudio Cavernas focus on a gentle 1 4

implementation of architecture and design solutions, providing vocational training along the way.

Estudio Cavernas use recycled materials for minimizing the negative environmental footprint of their construction.

The finishing of the construction is due in February 2019.

The second phase of the project is the implementation of activity-based, child-centered games. PlayOnside will run these activities on a regular basis.

The program-design is intentionally flexible, as we want to get a feel of

what the communities want. However, it will be football/games after school, homework assistance, English lessons, movie nights, art-projects and teambuilding activities.

As we have experienced from previous projects, regularity is of the outmost importance. Only through regular activities can we create a positive long-term social change. We hope particularly to engage the girls living in the community, creating a safe space for them to express themselves.

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PlayOnside Girls Football Team

PlayOnside creates a female football team of teachers, interested to improve their skills and understanding of the game.

To create local role models in the community is essential to reach our goals. And if these role models are women coaching and playing football, we can multiply the impact when we promote Gender Equality. Last year, after seeing more and more young female teachers interested in football, both coaching and playing themselves, and their eagerness of learning more about the game we offer the opportunity to run specific training with them.

Every month a game against other teams in Mae Sot is organized, to further expand their networks and create a great atmosphere that definitely is challenging and changing any type of stereotype, related to gender and football.

As a sugar ice on the cake, in February 2019 this team will participate in the Global Goals World cup in Bangkok, and international football tournament organized by UN promoting Gender A group of 12-14 teachers from different Equality in and out the field. schools join every week to receive football training, improve their skills and The impact of this program is huge and learn by experience methodologies and attracts more and more girls to join the activities that can implement during PlayOnside female football revolution. their training sessions with the children.

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The Wonders of Wonderfruit

Wonderfruit is one of the largest festivals organized South-east Asia. It is a festival that promotes music, art, architecture and wellness emphasizing participation and inclusion plus sustainability and social responsibility.

This year, PlayOnside was invited to take part of it to add creativity and fun in the kids-zone, a space for families and children to have fun and enjoy different activities.

small side games gave us the opportunity to bring awareness, connect with people and share ideas and experiences with the crowd.

The festival was a great success, and we hope to be invited in 2019 to further raise awareness about the migrant situation in Thailand.

In order to promote and give visibility of the situation on the border we created a PlayOnside station, where parents and kids had the opportunity to experience some of the Burmese traditions mixed with games and activities that PlayOnside uses on the program.

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Pae Deh School

In January 2018 the small independent migrant school in Pae Deh, in the hills outside Mae Sot had to close down.

Suddenly 25 children were without an educational offer in their community.

Something had to be done, and it had to happen quickly!

In September 2017, we had the pleasure of meeting the children from Pae Deh at the first time. Pae Deh is a small local community, in the outskirts of Mae Sot. It is a rural community, and most of the parents of the children are working on the farmland or the rice and banana plantations in the area. Before PlayOnside took over the responsibility in January 2018, two Burmese catholic nuns had run the school for the last few years.

It was not a religious school, and the school was not getting any external support, neither academically nor financially.

However, they local church let them borrow their basement, a big room functioning well as a classroom.

Due to different circumstances, the school had to close after Christmas 2017, and suddenly the many children attending were without anywhere to go. Some of the 45 students enrolled a local Thai school, some to other Migrant Learning Centers, and some moved back to Burma, but for the remaining 25 children, there were no school to attend. We decided to reach out to our network of specialists in Mae Sot, and put together an emergency educational curriculum to provide these children quality education, at least until the end of the school year.

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Our friends, Sam Tack and Anna Morcilo Salas are primary school teachers, with experience from several Migrant Learning Centers in Mae Sot, plus the extraordinary Minmahaw School, and they volunteered to teach at the school three times a week.

Sam and Anna were responsible of developing a curriculum, based on participatory activities, to improve English, teamwork and critical thinking. Before the start of the school day, PlayOnside ran football activities on a field close to the school – a refreshing and fun start of the day.

For PlayOnside it is imperative to involve the local community. If local stakeholders like parents, neighbors and village leaders are not only kept informed, but also directly involved in our project, they have a feeling of ownership, and not only is this a goal in itself, but it also reduces the probability of dropout.

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For this project, we decided to give some of the parents the responsibility of cooking school lunch every day. This generated some welcomed extra income for the parents and gave the children necessary nutritious and healthy school lunch, and important prerequisite for a successful learning experience.

The project wasn’t meant to be a temporary project, and PlayOnside never had any ambition of running the school in the long term. Our main objective was to provide short-term quality education, while working to enroll the children in regular migrant learning centers in and around Mae Sot. We were successful, and for the next school year, 100% of the students was enrolled, and even if we are not running the Pae Deh School any more, we still meet the children when they play for different schools in our running tournaments.

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Minmahaw Project

Minmahaw School is one of the few centres that provide higher education to migrant students in Mae Sot. Their unique methodology based on creativity, critical thinking, discussion and leadership makes this program especial. As part of their curriculum every term they offer to the students, .

different vocational courses that are implemented by external partners PlayOnside for second year in a row has been selected to provide a training on how to use the power of football and sport to improve their education in their communities and the society in general. Through different theorical and practical lessons the students learn how to identify different needs in the community and find the way on how sports can help to improve the situation in a short- and long-term period. Every term the students organize by themselvs a closing event where games, creativity and fun are the main characters.

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JES project program to participate. The objective is to create an organization addressing a challenge faced by the local community. The first step was to research and identify needs and present them to the rest of the group, before together selecting a project.

One of the goals is to raise awareness Then the students had to create the for Spanish students about the educational situation on the border, and NGO, the name and the logo and writing the statutes, doing research for students from two completely different countries to work together for about the cost and sending the final a common goal. This interactive cultural proposal to their peers in Spain.

The role of the Spanish students is to knowledge of exchange is a great create a organization in Spain, and do experience for both sides. PlayOnside fundraising activities, financing the selected nine local students from our local project here on the border. The communication between the groups was by e-mail and Skype, a great opportunity for both groups to share their experiences, to learn from each other and to have the chance to meet students that live that far away.

PlayOnside teamed up with the Spanish educational project Jóvenes Emprendedores Sociales” (Young Social Entrepreneurs) to create a student run organization.

The final project consist in a close collaboration between Footsteps of the 21st Generation (Mae Sot) and “Pasos Hacia Thailandia” (Spain) to provide stationary and equipment to two schools in Mae Sot. Those schools are selected because they have a lack of financial support from other organizations.

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Coaching Training

by PFA - Bangkok For serval years our partners at Premier Football Academy - Bangkok, have visited us in Mae Sot, and provided coaching training for the staff of PlayOnside, and the different teachers at the Migrant Learning Centers we are working with. To constantly learn and to improve our understanding of the game, we get valuable inputs and feedback on our program.

A rainy weekend in July was the venue of this years coaching training. As several coaches have previously been through different levels, it was time for a more advanced session.

The training consisted of two different parts, one theoretical and one practical part on the field.

It was great food for thoughts, and we believe the local role models are filling up their toolboxes and becoming better and better coaches for the children.

The feedback from the event was great, and we ook forward to continue working with PFA in the future, to expand our knowledge even further.

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World Cup of Values For the fourth consecutive year, PlayOnside together our partners Help Without Frontiers arranged the annual Peace Ball Action Tournament, supported and financed by Peace Ball Action – Thailand. (PBA – Thailand) The former professional football player Daiki Higutchi, who has several seasons behind him in the top divisions in Thailand before he retired this year, founded Peace Ball Action - Thailand.

Through an extensive network built over a long professional career, PBA has shown the ability to attract donors, donating equipment used both in the Peace Ball Action Tournament, and throughout the year in the regular PlayOnside activities.

16 different migrant learning participated in the two-day event, and the topic of this year’s event was Values through football, hence the name, “World Cup of Values.”

For PlayOnside the timing of the World Cup of values was not coincidental. The following week we kicked of the biggest tournament of the history of PlayOnside, Mingalarbar Mae Sot League 2018/19..

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The Rice Project - A Collaboration with Vestkysten Sportsklubb During the last 6 years the Norwegian football club Vestkysten Sportsklubb has supported and financed rice for several schools, dormitories and one orphanage in the outskirts of Mae Sot. Access to enough nutritious food is challenging in this area, and as rice is the staple food in the region, and consumed for every meal, it is pivotal for the children education and development,. Free school lunch is also an motivational factor for parents to send their children to school, where the enrollment rates are significantly lower than in regular Thai schools. .

PlayOnside is responsible for the monthly purchase and delivery of the rice. Over the course of 2018, PlayOnside purchased and delivered 170.000 meals of rice through the rice project, to the benefit of hundreds of children and youth on both sides of the border.

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Rainy Season Tournament

Rainy Season in the northeast of Thailand can be a wet affair.

Nevertheless, we have never let some water stop us before, and not this year either!

It is always nice to welcome new schools and new children to our program. However, before participating in a PlayOnside project, it is important to learn about the PlayOnside way. Sometimes, when One of the yearly highlights in the there is a competition with a trophy PlayOnside calendar is the Rainy Season for the winner, it is easy to be carried Tournament. This year was the third away, focus too much on the honor consecutive year we held this event, this and glory, and forget why we really year stretching for six weeks in August play football. and September. We were happy to welcome five new schools whom had never participated in a PlayOnside event before, while also welcoming back seven school who had not participated for a while.

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At the end of the day, who wins, and who loose is not the important thing, but this is easy to forget in the middle of the battle. To ensure that the children and the teachers in particular understand this concept, it is important with a meeting before we start. These meeting are to explain about the objectives of PlayOnside, and to clarify the rules of the tournament. As leadership skills are an integral part of our program, it was natural for the captains of the teams to discuss and agree on the rules of the tournament.

Before the start of the tournament, we facilitated a workshop, and let the

children themselves decide the rules, of course under guidance of the PlayOnside's local role models.

Discussion between the captains regarding rules and expectations from the children, and expectations from PlayOnside, where very fruitful.

By clarifying all potential sources of disagreements in advance, we avoided a lot of complaints and frustrations during the tournament. As the children themselves, through arguments and discussions agreed upon the rules, enhanced the ownership of the tournament for the children, and was an important part of the leadership program.

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The tournament is called Rainy Season Tournament for a good reason: It rains a lot this time of the year, and 2018 was particularly wet!

We normally have three football fields at our disposal, but as the games went on, the fields turned into a mud hole, and one after one became unplayable.

However, over the years, we have established a close relationship with other schools and local communities, and we were able to move around. Over the course of six weeks, we had games at six different locations. Without the flexibility and interest of the local community, recognizing the fin and importance of our project, we would not be able to complete this tournament.

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Life Skills Curriculum When people initially hear about PlayOnside, their immediate thought is “Oh, a football program! Nice!� It is of course a part of what we do, but we like to look at ourselves as an educational organization using football as our main tool to implement our program.

The migrant education system in Thailand is based around pillars of repetition, memorizing and discipline.

We believe in a more dynamic pedagogical approach, centered on participation and teamwork, and our goal is to use football as a tool to implement this approach.

Thus, we have developed a life-skill curriculum that we implement during the football season. At training, we focus on different life-skills, depending on the topic of the week. We also put emphasis on expanding and improving the English vocabulary of the kids, and introduce activities focusing on creativity and critical thinking.

Topics change every third week, giving us the chance to go into depth during the weekly training.

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At the weekend is it time to show the rest of the school what has been learned during the training. To encourage the schools and the coaches to focus on the life-skills curriculum, the point system in our leagues not only reflect the scores in the field, but also how the different teams do in lifeskills. By integrating it in the league, and particularly the point system, we take advantage of the sometimes competitive environment between the schools, to the mutual benefits of our program, and most importantly the students themselves.

What are Life-Skills, and why is it important?

The term “life skills” refers to a broad range of “soft skills” which often relates to dealing with different situations.

We often divide life skills into four different categories: • • • •

Thinking skills Working skills Learning skills Social skills

These essential skills are important to master other subjects in school, and to prepare for work life or further studies. By being used to present in front of a group of people, the children gain confidence and experience dealing with unfamiliar situations.

The life-skills curriculum is a new element in our program. The Mingalarbar Mae Sot League that started in November 2018 with more than 70 different teams participated in the first time we implement it. We are excited to see how well it is received by the schools, teachers and players.

One of our main focus areas for 2019 is to continue to improve and expand our Life Skills Curriculum, introducing new topics not only for the tournaments, but also throughout our program.

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Buku FC Event

In November, the Buku FC team and PlayOnside enjoyed fun activities and workshops run by SHero and That´s what Buku Fc, SHero and PlayOnside believe and the reason why organization that fights for women they decided to join forces and organize rights and against domestic violence.

Students were sharing cultures, “Border to Border” to promote peace, respect and solidarity through football. knowledge, and experiences from each region. A very inspiring weekend for Buku is a football team from Pattani in all the participants. We hope this is the beginning of a long-term the Deep South of Thailand, a region partnership! often known for conflict and violence that has taken the lives of more than 6,500 people over the past 12 years. This club provides local women and LGBT individuals a space to express themselves.

They create a space that is open to all religions, language groups, genders, physical conditions, and age as a place of equality, empowerment, and spiritual and physical healing.

Together, we can make the difference!

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Mingalarbar Mae Sot League

The Mingalarbar Mae Sot League is turning in to one of the institutions in our small border town. From November to February PlayOnside arranges the biggest football event in the border, and the 2018/2019 edition was bigger than ever before.

At the start of the tournament, a record number of 78 teams participated across the 6 different categories. This is the highest number of participants in any single PlayOnside project. However, with years of expertise, the organization is mature enough to be able to handle such a logistical, financial, and organizational

challenge. Some schools dropped out of the event as the tournament progressed, but the numbers were still record high, with many new schools joining our project for the first time. It is great to be in a position where we can offer this type of opportunity to more and more children.

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An important aspect of the Mingalarbar Mae Sot League was the Life Skills Curriculum. In the months prior to the tournament, PlayOnside developed a coaching handbook, that was introduced to all the different schools, teachers, captains and headmasters. The teams did not only get points in the table by winning their games, but they also received point for the Life Skills performance. The focus areas were English vocabulary, leadership, creativity, and teamwork.

Thus, we have developed a life-skill curriculum that we implement during the football season. At training, we focus on different life-skills, depending on the topic of the week. We also put emphasis on expanding and improving the English vocabulary of the kids, and introduce activities focusing on creativity and critical thinking.

Topics change every third week, giving us the chance to go into depth during the weekly training.

The tournament expands over the new year, and reports regarding the finals and closing ceremony will follow in the first quarterly report for 2019

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New Staff 2018 As PlayOnside has expanded the activities, we have also been in need for new coaches and role-models. In June and August 2018, the PlayOnside family grew with three new members.

Yadanar Oo joine PlayOnside in June 2018.

She has experience as a teacher at SAW School and KM 42 Migrant Learning Center. She is a dedicated football player and her willingness to learn and improve both as a player herself and as a coach. IN 2018 she was responsible for 3 different girls teams. And the girls are lucky to have her as a coach and a role model.

Aye Mya joined PlayOnside at the same time as Yadanar Oo. She is a graduate from Minmahaw with working experience from different local NGOs. Her experience and knowledge about the migrant community has been a great attribute to PlayOnside, Unfortunately for PlayOnside, Aye Mya will not stay with us for a long time, as she will pursue her dream of becoming a nurse.

Naing Zaw joined the PlayOnside family in August 2018 after graduating from Minmahaw. After Christmas he joined the one-year Wide Horizon Community Development program in Mawlamyine, Burma. WHen he graduates from this program he will return til PlayOnside in January 2020. We are very excited to get him back, with new ideas, new knowledge and new experiences.

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Financial Report 2018 Statement of Income Operating Revenue INCOME REGULAR MONTHLY PRIVATE DONATIONS SPONSORSHIP INCOME LUMP SUM PRIVATE DONATION PROJECT INCOME GRANTS SALES

2018

2017

BUDGET 2018

BUDGET 2019

387.165 480.974 95.838 192.585 1.174.424 19.679

360.567 496.890 1.454.391 141.200 421.039 3.642

420.000 476.400 150.000 326.216 175.000 20.000

436.000 534.240 95.000 75.000 1.150.100 10.000

EVENT INCOME

321.745

229.442

288.000

140.000

TOTAL INCOME

2.672.410

3.107.171

1.855.616

2.440.340

Comments to PlayOnside Operating Revenue: Over the course of the year, PlayOnside successfully increased our operating revenue with 44% more than budgeted. However, we experienced a decline in income revenue of almost 9 % compared to 2017, due to extraordinary private donations in 2017. Grants from Kavli Foundation, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Grieg Foundation contributed to the good result. Regular private funding increased 7% compared with 2017, but was 9% lower than what were budgeted for 2018. Different fundraising events in Spain and Norway, like markets, paddle-tournaments and fund-raising concerts, exceeded our expectations, and raised 321.000 baht, an increase of 40% compared to 2017.

PlayOnside is very grateful for all the support we receive from all over the world, with people feeling a part of our program, and contributing in any way they are capable. Without this unconditional support it would be difficult to achieve our goals in the local community we work in.

Operating Expenses 2018 Administration - specified below

272.540

2017 132.111

2016 31.995

BUDGET 2019 290.000

Office rent

56.836

60.000

Office equipment

20.998

25.000

Internet, telephone and webpage

16.526

20.000

Transportation

67.867

65.000

Taxes and Visas

78.474

80.000

Repairs and Maintenance

Coaches’ Salaries Project Cost - specified below Regular Training

31.839

40.000

791.746 1.138.791

1.308.261

301.666

989.683 1.609.633

34.242 81.554 176.224 49.012 8.500

420.000 26.064 187.903 31.822 8.500

31.000 20.000 17.186 3.198 1.000

35.000 81.000 180.000 50.000 8.500

2.552.609

2.114.661

406.045

3.243.815

629.711

Noh Bo Football Festival

83.184

Rainy Season Tournament

254.016

Coaching Training

45.646

Mingalabar Mae Sot League

252.935

StarFlower Program

21.416

Minmahaw

3.000

Peace Ball Action

17.420

Pah Dae Program

27.869

Kawkareik Summer school

115.221

Chelsea Football Foundation

32.768

Phop Phra Project

13.145

Green Island Project

420.000

JES Project

9.800

Wonder Fruits

Field Improvements Program Development Local Community Support Social and Medical Cost Depreciation and Amortization Net Operating Expenses

4.406

Comments to PlayOnside Operating Expenses: Over the course of the year, we initiated a number of new projects. The program has been exponentially expanding to more communities, more children and more fields of impact. Due to this expansion, PlayOnside has hired three new local coaches over the year, improving both the individual projects and the program overall. As a result, we have seen an increase of the operating expenses of the organization. We aim to continue to expand the program in 2019, and therefore we expect to see a further increase in the operating costs. This continuous expansion, demands and increase in revenue, and we are working with several financial partners to support the development of the program.

Financial Result INCOME

2018

2017

BUDGET 2018

BUDGET 2019

NET INTEREST RATE INCOME EXCHANGE RATE DEPRECIASION FINANCIAL COST

10.750

6.231

20.000

17.000

-21.806 -20.539

5.912 -30.741

39.000 -50.000

-22.840 -35.000

NET FINANCIAL RESULT

-31.595

-18.598

9.000

-40.840

Comments to PlayOnside financial result: An appreciation of Thai Baht compared to both Euros and Norwegian Kroner, contributed to a negative financial result for PlayOnside in 2018. At the start of 2019, both the Euros and the NOK have continued to depreciate, resulting in a worsening of the budgeted financial result for 2018. To counter the weakening of our two main income currencies, we will strengthen our work to attract Thai donors in 2019, limiting the effect of currency exchange fluctuations.

Balance Sheet Asset FIXED ASSETS BANK DEPOSIT NORWAY BANK DEPOSIT SPAIN BANK DEPOSIT THAILAND PAYPAL DEPOSIT CASH NET ACCOUNT RECIEVABLES TOTAL EQUITY

76.500 673.078 843.093 221.226 1.055 2.027 64.171

85.000 1.579.613 100.955 19.962 25.226 23.939 43.249

0 30.768 87.844 69.355 41.820 8.365 2.415

BUDGET 2019 68.000 0 0 1.086.174 0 0 0

1.881.150

1.877.944

240.567

1.154.174

2018

2017

2016

Comments to the PlayOnside Balance Sheet. We enter 2019 with 1.804.650 Thai Baht in financial assets across the different accounts of PlayOnside. In addition, PlayOnside has fixed assets with an estimated value of 76.500 Thai Baht. This is approximately the same amount as we had at the start of the fiscal year 2018. As a part of our long-term plan, it is a stated goal for the organization to have one years’ operating costs at the start of the year.

Entering 2019, we are a bit away from that goal, as we only cover 55 % of our annual program cost with our savings. PlayOnside will work over the coming year to increase this number.

Special thanks to: Bravo Galván family, BB Bank AS, Angelote Gonzalez, PFA - Bangkok, Barcelona Gaudi, Mariano Zuk, Help Without Frontiers, Wonderfruit, Estudio Cavernas, Daiki Higuchi, Victoria Pub and Cafe, Mae Sot Community, Gu Lay, Marc Rangel, Minmahaw School, Nuria Davila, Stian Espeland, The whole Almagrofamily, Lush Life, Øyvind Michelsen, Lars Henrichsen, Kavli Foundation, Grieg Foundation, Sofie Hamre, Colabora Birmania, Linn Let Arkar, Sam Tack, Anna Morcilo Salas, Nupan Luicia, Stanislas de Chazeaux, HCTC, Léa Artiaga, Vasana Siriku, the Spurlocks, Aengko Leewarakornl, Niko Gaitain, Manuel Cunillera Perez, Angel Moreno Alba, Enrique Barajas Valero, Lucia Galvan, Felix Mayor, Enrique Barajas y Silvana, Siemens Gamesa, Clara Tejero,Juan Gil Bueno, Borja Pascual, Yasmina Aulés, Alberto González, Victor González, Margarita Valero Díaz, Ana Sacritán Pérez, María Heras Bermejo, Carla Gómez Comino, Andrea Guzmán, Leticia Linares-Rivas Tovar, Teacher Focus Myanmar, Katherine Then Diaz, Maggi Quadrini, Jo Swift, Anna.Marie Berg, Tove Laursen, Silje Kvalsvik, Roger Andre Walle, Brage Breivik, Álvaro Rol, David Rodríguez, Oguchi Hayato, Dan Chalk, Trond S. Berg, Torstein Jahnsen, Thorleif Ramnefalk, Inge Skjælaaen, Berit Dagny Gjerstad, Buku FC, SHero, Lene Hatland, Thomas Kanebog, Tomas Nesse, Karim Damji, Geir Holme, Martin Møller, Trond Manger, Tom Løvik, Daniel Lundekvam, Anders Fikke, SAW School, Ingvill Strand, Manuel Tejado, La Taberna Fantástica, Espen Skotheim, Espen Johannesen, Ines and Rebeca LaCasa, Javier Garcia, Los Pollos Galvan, Frøydis Moberg, Vidar Mo, Christian Olowo, Wide Horizons, Border Youth, Mae Tae Clinc, and Spark! Circus, Trond Mohn, many more....

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