FORUM ON EUROPEAN CULTURE
31 may - 4 june 2023
After a knee injury ended her professional street football career, Rocky Hehakaija (1984) founded Favela Street, a personal development program training young people to become role models through street football. As a social entrepreneur, she convinces young people all over the globe that they matter and belong here so that they can break away from the image that society projects on them. Rocky works closely with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as a consultant for large organizations such as Nike and UEFA. More recently, Rocky achieved another milestone as she became the first-ever female street footballer to appear in the massively popular game FIFA20.
Rocky Hehakaija contributes to the programme Football: The People’s Game on 19 September 8:30 pm.
The European Cultural Foundation strenghtens the European sentiment by developing and supporting cultural initiatives that let us share, experience and imagine Europe.
