Futuro en Juego is a programme of padel, English and character education in Kennedy, a district of Bogotá, Colombia. It runs outside school hours, four afternoons a week, on the courts at PadelTown in Plaza de las Américas.


Each afternoon combines three things: padel training with certified coaches, an English class at the participant's level, and an hour of supervised homework. The twenty participants split into two groups that rotate, so no group is larger than ten.
Attendance at all four sessions is required. That is a condition of the programme rather than a recommendation: what changes a young person's trajectory is consistency, and an hour a week does not produce it.

For many children in Kennedy, the hours after school are the most exposed. It is when no adult is watching, and when the drug trade and the gangs that recruit minors show up.
These are the figures for Bogotá. Each one carries its source and its year, so it can be checked.
9.285
reported cases of psychoactive substance use in Bogotá schools
Concejo de Bogotá, 2025
85.000
students at risk of dropping out of school in Bogotá
Secretaría de Educación del Distrito, 2025
38.761
reports of abuse and violence against students in Bogotá
Secretaría de Educación del Distrito, 2025
We start with twenty. Long, demanding support can change the course of a life; a thousand scattered hours cannot.