|
|
- Skateistan: International Go Skateboarding Day in Afghanistan promotes friendship and solidarity
|
|
|
Kids who learn skateboarding with the Afghan NGO 'Skateistan' took to the streets of Kabul on 21 June, 2011, to celebrate International Go Skateboarding Day (GSD). Skateboarders around the globe hold events on this annual skateboarding day in recognition of the friendship and solidarity among skateboarders from different countries, ethnic backgrounds, genders and religions. Over 180 boys and girls took part in Kabul, skating a circuit from Skateistan’s park through one of the city’s oldest districts, in a call for peace, brotherhood and unity.
|
|
|
 |
- International Association of Athletics Federations
IAAF has developed an educational program adapted to children aged between 6 and 12 years old with the aim of offering a new kind of athletics, which is adapted, accessible to everyone, fun and attractive. This program called “Kids’Athletics” is easily adaptable because it is designed to be feasible everywhere, using equipment that is inexpensive or free.
The entire educational program has been translated into 6 languages to be easily understandable in most countries. It includes training courses for instructors and teaches how to manufacture alternative sports equipment made from waste products, local materials or natural resources available in the immediate environment. It also encourages the creation of non-selective teams.
|
 |
The EAC mission is to enable youth to make a difference in their home communities through empowerment through sports. The EAC currently encompasses 8 countries: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Sudan.
The main activities are a football tournament, a volleyball tournament, a wheelchair volleyball tournament, plus seminars targeting both technical personnel and youth with themes such as HIV AIDS, sports medicine, refereeing, conflict resolution, leadership training, media training and inter-cultural communication.
|
|
|
 |
- PeacePlayers International
PeacePlayers International (PPI) is a global non-profit organization that uses the game of basketball to unite, educate, and inspire young people in divided communities.
Through year-round programs in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel and the West Bank, and Cyprus, PPI has cumulatively reached more than 52,000 young people since inception in 2001. PPI’s programs are led by young men and women from the local communities who serve as coaches, leaders and peace builders. Informed by a decade of experience in diverse settings, PPI has developed a consistent methodology for using sport to empower young people to help their communities overcome cycles of conflict and alienation.
|
|
|
 |
The Club Med Foundation’s mission is to encourage company employees to carry out volunteer work and transfer their skills by taking part in solidarity actions in the vicinity of their workplace.
‘Sport Foundation’ schools are based on a simple concept: to introduce children from schools located in socially disadvantaged areas to sport by giving them access to Club Med’s facilities and sports instructors (in Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia etc.)
|
 |
Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals’ is a 32-page educational comic book featuring 10 football UN Goodwill Ambassadors (namely Emmanuel Adebayor, Roberto Baggio, Michael Ballack, Iker Casillas, Didier Drogba, Luis Figo, Raúl, Ronaldo, Patrick Vieira, and Zinédine Zidane) who become shipwrecked on an island on their way to playing an ‘all-star’ charity football game.
Whilst on the island, the team has to tackle the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) along their journey towards being rescued. The comic book is primarily aimed at 8-14 year old children and provides a fun interactive way to help them understand, familiarize and reflect about the MDGs as well as inviting them to take action through several activities provided in the adjoining educational guide.
|
|
|
 |
Gustavo Kuerten is the founder of the Guga Kuerten Institute, a non-profit civil association with purely educational, sporting, social and philanthropic goals.
The Guga Kuerten Institute aims to use sports activities to promote education, leisure, culture and health. 530 children and adolescents from 7-15 years old and 30 disabled people per year attend the Guga Kuerten Institute’s sports and education program called ‘Champions of Life’.
|
|
|
