Freetown — Fambul Tok, a community driven project aimed at reconciling victims and perpetrators in communities following the country's eleven-year-old will officially launch a football for reconciliation tournament in Kailahun District on November 8, 2008.

The tournament would continue until December 2008. Fifteen communities from different chiefdoms in the Kailahun District are expected to participate in the reconciliation tournament.

Each community would identify 15 men and 15 women (including people from the surrounding villages) to participate in the event.

All players, including females have begun to train.

Fambul Tok in collaboration with PLAY 31 is using sports as another mechanism for reconciliation and promoting the sport to bring people and communities together.

The aim of the tournament would be to solidify the reconciliation process in the war ravaged district.

Recently, Fambul Tok in collaboration with PLAY 31 handed over football kits, a generator, and a complete musical set to the Kailahun district executive committee through the district council chairman Lt. Col (Rtd.) Tom S Nyuma.

Play 31 is a Danish organization, founded by Jacob Lund, currently a Fellow at Columbia University.

It was formed on the basis of convention on the right of the child, Article 31.

The article stipulates that every child has the right to play. PLAY 31 promotes children in different parts of the world with footballs and football equipment. It believes that the game of football has unifying power in building a peaceful society.