UEFA: Foundation for Children 2017-18 report says "a year’s work in Europe and across the world"

"The UEFA Foundation for Children activity report for 2017-18 highlights a year’s work carried out by the foundation, not only in Europe, but also across the world, fulfilling its mission to help children through sport, and especially through football - by providing backing primarily in the areas of health, education, access to sport, personal development, integration and defending the rights of the child," stated UEFA on 18/12/2018.

"All of these projects and activities underline just how football can be a driver for social change and improvement - and how our beautiful game can help bring smiles to young faces,” said Aleksander Čeferin.“The UEFA Foundation for Children will continue to consolidate its work in the coming period, seeking to make more dreams come true and give hope and purpose to young lives," wrote Aleksander Ceferin, UEFA president (successor to José Manuel Durão Barroso at the head of this UEFA Foundation, on 22/11/2017).

"(on 21/04/2018), the report recalls, brought a major milestone for the foundation - the inaugural UEFA/United Nations Match for Solidarity in…