To overcome Poverty and backwardness I have started pilot projects in So’E, West Timor - Indonesia. Use KOA MAU to involves other NGO like PLAN International unit So’E. Running Football leagues for the U 12 & U 20 to promote ‘Green Environment’. I encouraged every team to clean up their rubbish after the game & try to practice it at their schools & homes. As part of 1 GOAL global action week, on 23 rd of April 2010 KOA MAU held a free coaching clinic for 200 children ( U-14)& 20 Coaches.
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'Oscar' Obed Asbanu
'Oscar' Obed Asbanu's Biography
Since November 2008, I – Obed (Oscar) Asbanu, founder of KOA MAU – have worked with the community members of the West Timorese town of So'E to help create KOA MAU. KOA MAU, which stands for Klub Olahraga Atoin Meto, Ao Mina Ao leko (West Timorese Sports Club, My blessing is from my own good), is an independent, non-profit community organisation designed to bring positive change through strengthened community values, cultural heritage and, most significantly, through sports. In its short life, KOA MAU, has achieved a great deal; already, for example it has formed the Women’s Working Group, several Youth Soccer Teams, a Children’s Play Group and two major soccer events. KOA MAU has been met with enthusiasm in So’E – proven by high levels of participation. So’E’s first youth soccer league for under 21s, for example, saw participation from all eight teams while all 28 tea
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