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"XICS" Programme

“Sports also have to be included more systematically in aid programmes for children, and especially those who are living in the midst pf poverty, diseases and conflicts”. Kofi Annan

Sharing the sentiments of 7th UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, the Fundació del Futbol Club Barcelona has set up its 'Xarxa Internacional de Centres Solidaris' (International Network of Solidarity Centres - XICS) with the main objective being to promote access to Education, Health and Sport for all children all around the world, without distinction.

The first beneficiaries of this program are the boys and girls living in critical situations in the most disfavoured regions of the planet, victims of severe poverty, humanitarian crisis and child exploitation. These children are continually living in situations of social exclusion, experiencing major vulnerability which causes the threat of chronic malnutrition, transmittable diseases like Aids, and a lack of opportunities to build a safe future. For many of these children, life is reduced to little more than a fight for survival, where they are denied a childhood, a period of life that should be all about personal development, learning and play, as recognised by the “Convention on the Rights of the Child' of 1989.

With this in mind, the Fundació del FC Barcelona has made one of its main objectives international cooperation for development, carrying out programmes and projects in the most disfavoured regions of the planet in collaboration with recognised local organisations and with the support of the local authorities and ministries in the affected areas. In these programmes, the main objective will be to provide “integral care” in terms of education, health care and psycho-social support for boys and girls that do not have adequate access to basic social and health services in such countries as Brazil, Cameroon, Senegal, and Morocco.