While doing some research into successful projects encouraging Indigenous students into education I encountered this outrageously popular program over in WA.
The Clontarf Foundation began as a football academy at Clontarf Aboriginal School set up Gerard Neesham to give boys the motivation and self belief to go to, and stay at, school. The academy was so successful at Clontarf it has now been expanded to 6 other locations and will probably grow to 11 by 2008. It began with just 25 kids in 2000 and now the academies have a combined enrolment of 400.
The success of this program absolutely astounds me. All I hear from the media is the bad and the hopeless, but here is an example of a project that works with an idea so simple it can continue to expand and develop in the future.
I’d like to see more of the successful programs like this one being reported and supported by the media, and I’d like to hope this kind of success can be replicated in other non-football programs as well.
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