Project GOAL Announce Central Falls Cleanup Day at Ledge Street Lot
After School program and students to give back to community for future mini soccer pitch area
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Project GOAL and its students will be performing cleanup of trash at the Ledge Street lot in Central Falls on Friday, October 4 at 4pm.
The cleanup is part of the students “pay it forward” initiative from the end of the 2019 school year in June. Each student gave a proposal for a way they could give back to the Central Falls community, the students reviewed each proposal, and then voted on the best one. The site was picked as it is potentially going to be the location of a future soccer mini pitch, which the student of Project GOAL would have use of in the future.
The Project GOAL students will be joined by members of City Hall, Project GOAL staff and Board members, and members of the Central Falls community.
“It’s so wonderful to see student athletes giving back to the community by helping clean up our city. I am pleased to know that Project GOAL is helping to teach our students on and off the field,” says Mayor James A. Diossa. “Thank you to Project GOAL for the consistent dedication to our youth.”
About Project GOAL:
Project GOAL is an internationally recognized organization supported by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) and Football For Hope™ grant programme, a founding member of the Urban Soccer Collaborative™, and a North American member representative of the streetfootballworld™ Network based in Berlin, Germany.
Established in 2004, Project GOAL, Inc. (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), is a free of charge after-school initiative that partners with the Central Falls School Department, SCOPE/Central Falls School District, and Rhode Island College’s M.ED. in Reading program. Project GOAL’s mission is to facilitate the development of New England’s disadvantaged inner city youth through after-school tutoring, health education, and soccer-related programs.
A non-profit 501c3 organization, Project GOAL, Inc., is comprised of professionals from the business, academic, health and soccer communities who support the project in achieving its objectives in creating opportunities for its “GOALie” participants.