We started the Let Me Play Fund for all those teams who tell us they face inequality in sports, because they’re girls. Lower budgets for their school team. Bake sales to buy uniforms. Rundown fields and courts. Low community support.

Will this all change overnight? No.
Can we do something about it? Yes.

The Nike-Changemakers Sport for a Better World Competition seeks leading innovations that use sport to improve community, accelerate development and drive social change.

This collaborative competition will identify innovative and transformative ideas and accelerate their development, innovation and potential for global impact.

This summer China is holding the biggest, coolest coming out party for a developing country by hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Part of China’s rapid growth is because it is experiencing the largest peaceful migrant in human history - over 200 million Chinese (the equivalent of 2/3 of the US population) are moving from rural areas to cities in search of work and a brighter future.

What difference can sport make?