It’s almost been a year since we started Midnight Football in Serian, Sarawak. We sat down with our team of facilitators for Midnight Football’s 2nd Leadership Camp to hear their thoughts on the youths’ progression. Midnight Football is a year-long character-building programme that aims to empower less-advantaged youth through football and leadership training. This Midnight…
James is a promising young footballer who struggles with self-confidence. Through Midnight Football, James learned to find his confidence in himself.
60 youths from Sarawak selected for one-year three-month youth football empowerment programme Bau, 15 August 2019 – Sixteen-year-old Xavier Casly dreams of becoming a professional footballer to make his family and nation proud. Hailing from Plaman Nyabet village in Sarawak, the Bidayuh youngster did not have an easy start into football. “I first became interested…
The Midnight Football Tournament provided an opportunity for Serian district’s youths to showcase their football talents, but it also brought out the best in them with regards to sportsmanship, respect, and responsibility. “What is success? It isn’t only about winning but playing in a certain way.”—Kevin Keegan (former football player) Nine teams, three days, and…
Brandon volunteered with us for the Midnight Football camp held in Sumiran at the end of March. A final year student from Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak, he challenged himself to try something out of his comfort zone —volunteering—to grow himself as a person and learn more about other people. The Midnight Football camp is…
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – Thomas Meeha. Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to the person who taught you a lot, in the ways that you can never imagine, not to say you depend on someone so much, but when you feel all alone, left out…
Midnight Football “Off the Street, On the Ball” A Live-Changing Journey for Youngsters The third batch of young participants from ‘Midnight Football’ celebrated their completion of the 8-month long program with a “Championship Tournament and Closing Ceremony” at the futsal court at Sri Selangor Flats in Jalan Loke Yew, Kuala Lumpur recently. 50 youngsters from…
Hey there, how are you? I assume you are in good health, so then how’s life? Tough? Feeling like you just want to give up because things don’t seem to work well? Have you tried trying? Which then you tend to fail and you try again and yes more failure and you start blaming on…