Football and Child RIghts
Using sports to unite and develop the coming generation.Palestine Sports for Life (PS4L) bi-weekly holds safe spaces for children and youth to play sports. Within the sessions, PS4L professional life skills and sport trainers teach youth about human rights, health,...
Ball To All and Celebrity Goalie Ivo Mapunda Deliver in Tanzania
Ball To All will make its largest delivery of soccer balls to kids who can not afford them. Ivo Mapunda will lead the event in Tanzania.Ball To All is a non-profit (501c3) organization that was founded with a simple premise: keep kids playing – it will help them grow...
Zakhi: finding inner peace with yoga
Zakhi is a certified yoga teacher working with the association Yoga and Sport with Refugees, in Greece. He started joining yoga classes when he was on Lesvos in 2019 and then decided to follow the Yoga teacher training offered by the organization. Story: "In the first...
Abhinav Bindra: history-making sportsman and philanthropist
Abhinav Bindra is an Indian Olympic champion specialising in shooting. After making history in India, including winning the country's first individual gold medal, he also set up his own foundation. "Having retired from professional shooting in 2016, I wanted to give...
Misbah “Volleyball For Change”
Misbah Volleyball Academy has been promoting sports and physical activities among girls in the area as well as in capital by organizing various training sessions and fitness camps with special focus on how to maintain healthy diet and healthy lifestyle in order to...
Raise Your #WhiteCard For Peace in Sport by Badminton World Federation
Today, BWF is once again raising its #WhiteCard in solidarity with Peace and Sport’s annual observance of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace – April 6.The yearly commemoration is marked by the world governing body of badminton, which joins other...
Run for Art 5th Edition Photography Exhibition
On display the five new Tokyo 2020 Olympic sports seen through the lens of young photographers under 35.Over 100 photographers from 37 countries have participated in the 5th edition of this international contest.The photographs of the finalists of the 5th edition of...
Mahdi: kick-boxing to be part of a resilient community
Mahdi Khawari was one of the K1 coaches of the association Yoga and Sport with Refugees, which works on the island of Lesvos, in Greece. Mahdi spent about two years in the refugee camps of Lesvos, where he joined the association for a year to share his knowledge in...
Masud: learning to get integrated through sport
Masud Ghulan is living in the Lesvos refugee camp, in Greece. He participates in the sport sessions offered by the Yoga and Sport with Refugees association, which works close to the camp. Story : "Everything here is new. I’m only 2.5 years old here in Europe. Yoga and...
Nasroolah: sport to find a purpose
Nasroolah Jafari joined the Yoga and Sport with Refugees kickboxing classes when he was a resident of the refugee camp of Lesvos, in Greece. Having joined the association two years ago, sport has allowed him to get out of the camp environment and find a purpose; now...