I am a Sports for Development and Peace practitioner and researcher from Pakistan. I lead Kafka Welfare Organization as an Executive Director here we use sports as a social tool to engage isolated young people. Otherwise, they would go to the negative side.
Abdulrahman, 37, used to be a farmer in his home country, Syria. Due the war he and his family had to flee Syria and ended up living in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Abdulrahman, also called Jado, is a father of six children and three of them are training regularly in Table Tennis.
Noor, 24 years old comes from Daraa city in Syria. She studied until high school and since 2014 she has been involved in many sport activities in the camp.
She followed the football coach seminar of the UEFA Foundation, worked with La Liga Foundation for the coordination of football competition in the camp and was a fitness coach for Blumont before joining the Live Together program as a Table Tennis coach.
She is married and has two daughters.
Ali, 28, comes from Daraa, a city in the southwest of Syria. Ali arrived in Zaatari Camp in 2013 with his family. He studied Civil Engineering in Damascus. He was interested in Kickboxing even before the project started. He used YouTube videos to learn the techniques. He has attended many educational courses in the camp provided by UNHCR and NGOs. Before joining the Live Together Program, Ali was a community center coordinator with Blumont and was involved in many volunteering activities in the camp. Today, he is the Head of Administration for the coaches of the program, involved in the translations and the monitoring of the activities.
He is married and has 2 daughters and a son.
Nasren, is 36 years old and comes from Daraa city. She studied until High School in Syria. Since her arrival in the camp she successively worked as a football coach with UEFA Foundation, fitness coach with Blumont before joining the Live Together Program as a Self Defense Coach.
Oday Al-Khozai, is 27 years old and comes from the city of Jerash in Jordan. He graduated from the University of Jordan with a specialization in Sport and Physical Education. Beside his studies, he played in the Jordanian Table Tennis National Team for several years. In 2010 he won the Kingdom Championship and in 2011 the Arab Championship in Lebanon. Convinced by the power of sport he joined the Live Together Program as coordinator in 2019 to share his knowledge with the refugees.
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