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Home of Paulinho and Leo (and 6 more people) In front of the house A local street were our atletes live Future atletes

January 2008 - Christmas presents
Through voluntaries every participant received a present which he asked for in their letters. Further on it was Paulinhos birthday party and the goodbye of Maria do Carmo, director of the school.

Food packages sponsored by Greenfield
Just in time for Christmas Greenfield sponsored 140(!) “Cestas Básicas” food packages for the families of the participants!

November 2007: Visit of the Brasilian National Coachof Badminton Luis de França at our project
It was a great moment to receive Luis de França for a two days training at our facilities. He was very impressed by the level of the players and promised help. Since then many dream of being a National Coach...

November 2007: Sponsorship by the Lions Club Kurfürstendamm/Berlin
We are very happy to inform that the Lions Club will sponsor 5 participants during one year.

October 2007: Regional Natal
With the help of the EMBALA sponsor Leo and Paulinho could participate at the III Regional of this year in Natal/RN. Both won their categories, so now Leo and I are the only players in the Northeast in the Nacional A category.

June 2007: Embala Open of Gravatá - 30/06/2007
With the help of Greenfield we organized a little tournament.The boys and girls loved it, we had food, fun and nice medals. The winners took a “cesta básica” (basic food package) home to their families.

June 2007: 2° Stage of the Badminton Championship of the Northeast of Brazil in Teresina
Another great sucess in Teresina, even though we only managed to send 2 players. Leonardo won the main category and winning in Natal in November can be the second player after me to enter the National A Category. Paulinho was winning the finals of the B Category, but had to give up. Still we are very happy about the success! We received a special congratulation from Luiz de França, the National Badminton coach for the project and its success.

Mai 2007: A special thanks to my family for the general and financial support. For example they made a presentation at the Berlin Lions Club Kurfürstendamm possible witch looks very promising, they send me send me nets and shuttlecocks.

April 2007: 1° Stage of the Badminton Championship of the Northeast of Brazil in Recife
Another very successful participation, we won Under 11, 13, 19 and Vice Under 17 years. Our best player, Leonardo won against the best players from Recife and Piauí, only lost in the finals against the Pernambuco number 2. Anyway a huge success which proves that not only in the social area but sportive too we are on the right way. Thanks to all that made that trip possible.

February 2007: Very good news from Wilson Switzerland who keep on supporting our project at one of the most important tournaments of the world, the SWISS OPEN, with U$ 200.000,- price money. Who buys a new racket and leaves his old will get a discount and the old racket will be sent to us!

January 2007: Our project was accepted by the Kindermissionswerk "Die Sternsinger" under the projektnumber A 07 0212 001. Donations can be given to: Sparkasse Aachen, Accountnumber: 299, Banknumber: 390 500 00 , and, very important, the projectnumber A 07 0212 001. All donations will be sponsored by the Kindermissionswerk with 10% and sent to the account of the ODIP school, where the director Maria do Carmo and I will see to the best for the kids.

November 2006: 3° Stage of the Badminton Championship of the Northeast of Brazil in Natal/Rio Grande do Norte.
Unfortunately we didn´t find enough sponsors to participate at the 2º stage in Teresina/Piauí, but Natal again was a complete success: We won the following categories: Under 11 Boys, Under 13 Boys, Vice Under 15 Boys and Under 17 Boys.

November 2006: 2º BADMINTON OPEN OF GRAVATÁ
Celebrating two years of existence and success! Thanks to all the sponsors who made that possible. Very exiting matches, everybody showing maximum disposition and a lot of sweat. At the end hotdogs, softdrinks and a big birthday cake. A lot of happy faces!

Rodrigo is in the Brazilian National Team! This is a dream come through. He will play the Pan American Championship - www.panambadminton.org

Thanks to a donation from Andrew Summers our expenses for the trip to Curitiba are covered.

1ª Stage of the Badminton Championship of the Northeast of Brazil in Recife / Pernambuco.
 The participation of the children of our project was a complete success. We won the following categories: Under 11 Boys, Under 13 Boys, Vice Under 15 Boys, Under 17 Boys, Adults B and third place Under 15 girls. Thanks to all who helped us! As the local Federation informed, this will guarantee the two best of each category at the national tournament in Curitiba, South Brazil. Just imagine what this means for a child living in a favela in complete poverty!

WILSON BADMINTON SWITZERLAND is supporting our project. Thomas Schärer, Team- & PR-Manager Wilson Badminton, gave me personally 100 raquets, shuttlecocks, T-shirts and DVD´s. Our project now is to organize a Workshop in Brazil. This would be a sensation.

Welcome to the Developmentcenter of Badminton in Gravatá, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is a completely new sport in this region and one of our main objectives is, apart from the pleasure of playing, to give street children a new perspective for life.

We work together with two organisations, ODIP (School for the defense of poor childhood) and GAMR (Group to help street children of Gravatá).

The project started in October 2003 and survives through the help of friends.

Organization
Frank Düesberg - (84) 9926-4590, Fax: (81) 3533-4860 Skype: frankgravata, MSN: frank@vianet.ch

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