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HistoryIn 2007, Colin Decker and Eun Jung Decker founded Play for Life International. They formed the organization around the passionate belief that sports can help transform the lives of at-risk children. By engaging and empowering at-risk youth, sports can help lay the foundation for truly meaning, transformative life experiences. With no monetary donations, the pair organized volunteers to help start a year-round in-depth baseball program. The organization was asked to host one-day activities at local schools to teach sports and life lessons, which it did for over 100 children. PFLI was also asked to hold and subsequently arranged and coached a 10-week long soccer clinic. The organization's original goal for the first year was to work with 40 children. However, overwhelmed by the requests for programs from various communities and schools, the organization worked with over 300 children in its inaugural year with a budget of less than $10,000 and no paid staff. Today, three years later, Play for Life International is a recognized not-for-profit leader in providing quality sports and life lesson programming to boys and girls throughout Chicago. |
