Mapi Liberia

In the refugee camp Buduburam for Liberians in Ghana, a women's soccer team is founded by 22-year-old Luci, a foreign student who is crazy about football. She names her team Mapi because that's how she used to call her late father.

Buduburam was built when the bloody Liberian Civil War broke out in 1990 and became the provisional home of several thousand refugees. At times, 45,000 people lived in this camp.
The life of the refugees is is almost completely confined to the dusty little streets within the camp since they are forbidden to leave, even for work.
Since the withdrawal of the UN relief organisation from the camp in 2007, life there has be-come extremly hard and the humentarian situation has deteriorated alarmingly.

Luci's soccer training offers relief for the traumatised girls and women who have survived the horrors of African civil war and a welcome escape from the bleak routines of daily life in a refugee camp. Here, they experience feelings of hope, comradeship and selfconfidence for the first time since the outbreak of war...

Although they may have different backgrounds, they are still connected by one fact: They have all been robbed of their homes, their families, their friends and of their entire previous life by the Liberian Civil War.