Champion for Peace Fode Ndao: My goal is to use sport as a tool for dialogue and social cohesion
“I am committed to contributing to the initiatives of sports diplomacy and field programmes, especially in Africa, with the essential support of the 100 ‘Champions for Peace’ to promote sport as a tool for dialogue as well as to achieve the objectives of peace,” said...
Always moving forward: Para-Rafting for Massimiliano Giandinoto
Rafting as a team sport is a tool for social inclusion. Para-Rafting teams display the combination of 2 normo and 2 para athletes: they chose the positions on the raft depending on the complementary abilities of every teammate who therefore discovers her/his potential...
HELLENIC OLYMPIC WINNERS ASSOCIATION
Hellenic Olympic Winners Association create a video for promoting the message of Peace through sports.Olympic Athletes rise up a white card!Each person wrote a personal message to support the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace organised by Peace and...
Serge Betsen Academy: from girls to empowered women through rugby
Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) is an organisation created by Serge Betsen in 2004. For 17 years, SBA has helped more than 7,000 disadvantaged children mostly in Cameroon but also in Mali since 2020. They use rugby to support their development and to offer a route to...
Taekwondo for all
More than 30 people with disabilities have trained Taekwondo with me (@TaekwondoAdaptadoColombia) through online classes since August 2020. In fact, I have students connected at more than 800 km away from my city. My aim is to show that Taekwondo is and should be for...
Sport has helped me to bring smiles on the faces of young girls and boys
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.
AS DONSA : Gender Equity through Kayaking
Comlan Simedo, passionate about water sports, I participated in Benjamin Boukpeti's AMADONSA camp, which allowed me to acquire many skills to now manage my rowing-kayak club and to pass on to the youngest Togolese. #amadonsa; #benjaminboukpeti; #whitecard;...
South Africa: Township / Social Club by Jean-Jérôme PERRIN-MORTIER
Olympic Games 2008! We are in South Africa in one of Bethlehem's biggest townships, and we shared our last couple of hours with the kids from the Club that we created a few years ago....
Muhammad Khalid Mahmood, Secretary General, Pakistan Olympic Association
On April6 the International Sport community will once again celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP). Established by the United Nations General Assembly and the International Olympic Committee, April6 recognizes the role that sport...
Lt Gen (R) Syed Arif Hasan HI(M), President Pakistan Olympic Association/ Noc Pakistan
On April6 the International Sport community will once again celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP). Established by the United Nations General Assembly and the International Olympic Committee, April6 recognizes the role that sport...