The Huracan Foundation is a UK registered charity running projects that use football as a catalyst for improving children’s education (both inside and outside of the classroom) and for driving social change in the communities in which it operates.
The Foundation was founded by Henry May, an ex Teach First participant, who combined his passion for football and the Argentinian team C.A.Huracan, with his first-hand experience of witnessing the power that the game can have in engaging children in the classroom and helping to improve their academic performance. The Huracan Foundation now ensures that football is the driving force to help disadvantaged children around the world who are a part of one of our Huracan projects to stay in school and help to improve their grades. To date we have run 27 projects and supported over 1,500 children.
As Henry was, our Project Leaders are all members of the Teach For All (TfA) network. We partner with TfA because we know their teachers work in communities with great needs and we know that these teachers have been hand-picked and given world-class training. We carefully select Project Leaders from this network who have a unique idea for a project that uses football to change children’s lives and and, following an initial Kick Off week training session with them, we provide the leaders with:
- funding and resources (including Huracan branded kit and equipment);
- access to our community (including our extensive social media networks);
- access to The Huracan Academy (The Huracan Foundation’s own online Football For Good curriculum); and
- access to our mentor network.
We currently support projects across Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe.