Volkswagen employees are helping to fund a new program with the Chattanooga Football Club to promote soccer as a way for low-income youth to live active and healthier lives.
The Volkswagen Workers Foundation announced Monday it will provide $100,000 to the Operation Get Active initiative to benefit the children participating in the new program.
Peter Woolcock, director of Operation Get Active, said the donation will help expand the soccer program, which began this spring at nine inner-city locations in Chattanooga. This spring alone Operation Get Active has reached more than 180 boys and girls, aged 9-12.
“I truly believe that soccer is a universal language that has the ability to change the lives of children for the better and Volkswagen Workers Foundation’s generous contribution to Operation Get Active shows their commitment to this aim and to the health and well-being of Chattanooga’s youth,” Woolcock said.
The Volkswagen Workers Foundation, a charitable nonprofit organization founded in April of 2015, is the American branch of the Volkswagen Employee Foundation, a German nonprofit organization that supports the education of children through improvement of their living conditions.