<div>SCUB Rio offers free soccer in Rio's most violent 'favela', Complexo da Penha.
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<div>This week, the Police raided Penha, and the death toll stands at 130 people.
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<div>It doesn't have to be this way.
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<div><strong>Football is the hope. </strong>
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<div>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.
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<div>Please help us support SCUB Rio in doubling its efforts to provide every child in Penha with a safe space to play.
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<div>We can't say football saves every life.
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<div>Many have been lost.
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<div><strong>But football is saving lives. </strong>
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<div><strong>Football is the hope. </strong>
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<div>Every cent raised will go directly to SCUB Rio and their free soccer program for the kids of Penha.
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<div>The following was written by Coach Drika the day after the killings.
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<div>"I'm going to tell you a story that maybe you don't know.
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<div>I've been working for more than 10 years in Complexo da Penha, at the social project SCUB Rio.
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<div>This is the community where everything happened this week.
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<div>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.
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<div>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."
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<div>Many people don’t give these projects the slightest importance — and that includes people within the community itself.
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<div>We do extremely beautiful work that goes far beyond the walls of the community.
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<div>Many dreams have already come true because of this small project.
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<div>I could spend the whole day discussing what we’ve done, but I’d like to conclude this text by saying that…
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<div>I’m deeply sorry for this devastating situation.
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<div>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."
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