SCUB Rio offers free soccer in Rio's most violent 'favela', Complexo da Penha.

This week, the Police raided Penha, and the death toll stands at 130 people.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Football is the hope.

If you can support the football program, please donate to the Sports Creative today. Every cent will go to SCUB Rio. The Sports Creative has already committed and sent $1,000.

Please help us support SCUB Rio in doubling its efforts to provide every child in Penha with a safe space to play.

We can't say football saves every life.

Many have been lost.

But football is saving lives.

Football is the hope.

Every cent raised will go directly to SCUB Rio and their free soccer program for the kids of Penha.

The following was written by Coach Drika the day after the killings.

"I'm going to tell you a story that maybe you don't know.

I've been working for more than 10 years in Complexo da Penha, at the social project SCUB Rio.

This is the community where everything happened this week.

Many times, we have thought about giving up. But giving up on this project would mean giving up on lives—and that we will never do.

And it's not just days - it's years that the project jas been saving young people and children, giving them a greater perspective in life."

Many people don’t give these projects the slightest importance — and that includes people within the community itself.

We do extremely beautiful work that goes far beyond the walls of the community.

Many dreams have already come true because of this small project.

I could spend the whole day discussing what we’ve done, but I’d like to conclude this text by saying that…

I’m deeply sorry for this devastating situation.

I sincerely hope that you — the general public — start giving more importance to all these social projects, because they don’t just transform lives, they save them."