Man City Legend Pablo Zabaleta and the Premier League Trophy visit Cityzens Giving Young Leaders in Mexico City to celebrate launch of expanded Xylem Water Heroes Academy

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เกจวัดแรงดันปั๊มลมpuma , Mexico, September 22, 2022 – Manchester City’s world charity initiative, Cityzens Giving, and Official Water Technology Partner, Xylem, are delighted to announce the expansion of Xylem Water Heroes Academy, a global initiative in ten cities utilizing the power of soccer to tackle local water challenges.
Since its launch in 2021, Xylem Water Heroes Academy has engaged over seventy five younger leaders and delivered important water education to more than 6,000 young people in 5 cities: São Paulo, Mumbai, Cape Town, New York City and Shanghai. The expanded network, which now additionally contains youth-led tasks in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cape Coast, Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne, goals to positively impact 20,000 extra young individuals over the next 4 years.
Graphical person interface<br/>Description automatically generated with low confidence” winautomationvisibilitylandmark=”true”><br/>To mark the launch, Pablo Zabaleta and the Premier League Trophy visited the El Coyolito neighbourhood in Mexico City to meet Cityzens Giving Young Leaders who’re using the facility of soccer to solve native water issues.<br/>Despite heavy flooding and rainfall, Mexico City is going through a water shortage. More than 20 million residents don’t have sufficient water to drink for practically half the yearand one in five individuals have entry to only a few hours of operating water from their taps every week.<br/>This project will see Young Leaders from love.fútbol use specially tailored football games to coach young people locally on accountable water consumption, in addition to the significance of safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).<br/>Zabaleta took half in a youth-led soccer and water pageant and engaged in a Q&A session with young individuals, before studying a conventional Mexican dance.<br/>Reflecting on his visit, Zabaleta said: “Meeting the Young Leaders in Mexico City was an amazing expertise. The means they’re utilizing soccer to teach kids in regards to the importance of water is inventive and provoking, and it’s nice to see this unique initiative from Cityzens Giving and Xylem increasing to extra cities. The Young Leaders are so engaged with supporting their group and to have the power to contribute in a small method was a privilege.”<br/>As <a href=เกจวัดแรงดันน้ำ4หุน of the activity within the country, Young Leaders, Xylem employees and followers from Manchester City’s Official Supporters Club in Mexico City also joined forces to repaint the El Coyolito pitch and create a water-themed mural.
In addition, City in the Community coaches delivered training to forty Young Leaders in Mexico City, sharing expertise and information in leadership, group football and WASH. This was adopted by a three-day digital Summit, connecting Young Leaders and Xylem consultants from all ten cities to share ideas on tackling water challenges via soccer.
“Climate change continues to threaten water availability in communities across the globe,” said Austin Alexander, Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem. “Xylem Water Heroes Academy harnesses the power of soccer and young leaders to deal with these water challenges and make our communities extra resilient.”
Valeria, a Young Leader with love.fútbol stated: “We need all the children here to bear in mind that responsible water consumption is very important, and so they must deal with it. We acquired coaching from Man City coaches and learnt several games that teach kids about water conservation by way of soccer. We are really pleased and thankful that Man City and Pablo Zabaleta visited our community.”
Later this season, City fans may have an opportunity to study more concerning the 5 new Water Heroes Academy tasks and vote for their favourite young water heroes.
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Caption: Pablo Zabaleta poses with Young Leaders and The Premier League Trophy at Deportivo El Coyolito in Mexico City (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)
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