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Locally-Based Projects in Haiti |
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Activities supported by Peace and Sport
Implementing a program to give a structure to 50,000 young people living in survivor camps through sporting socio‐educational activities and psycho‐social support
- Daily educational and sports activities offered to 50 000 children and teenagers (football, volleyball, basketball, judo, gymnastics, chess, tennis, badminton, etc.)
- Mobilizing over 200 instructors and educators from 10 sports federations and sports clubs.
- Organizing more than 800 90‐minute physical exercise sessions a day.
- Collecting and delivering new and used sports equipment from the international sports world (7 tons of equipment collected in October 2010)
- Collecting financial donations
- Seconding sport teachers and educators to train Haitian instructors
- Setting up special operations involving Champions for Peace
Number of children involved
- 40,000 children each week in selected survivor camps
Impact
- Overcoming trauma
- Strengthening resilience, self‐confidence and psycho-social well-being
- Relearning the collective rules of living in society
- Improving quality of life for children and restoring a structured living environment
- Beginning rebuilding on a sustainable, fair and peaceful basis, using established rules
Voice from the field
Jean-Edouard Baker (President of the Haitian Olympic Committee)
"The children are really happy with the sports program. All of the sports offered enjoy great popularity. The most violated rights of young people living in this precarious situation are education and health. Our primary mission is to use sport for development and to address these two issues.”
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