Project duration: 3 Months
Project's focus area: sports girls
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In a 5 day series of sports events and skills and Counseling workshops at an Internally Displaced People's camp in Eldoret, Kenya, the project aims to empower youths with the capacity to embrace peaceful conflict resolution through sports and to equip them with skills in using popular sports and Educational Development Theatre as animation tools for Peace building, participation and cross-cultural understanding.
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Friendly soccer, netball, volleyball, handball matches. A special road race through post-election violence affected areas in Eldoret. A workshop to train youth group leaders on the use of sports and other creative resolution strategies. |
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Long term the project will directly serve 60 young people & their communities by success addressing ethnic violence issues & bridging the gulf betw the ethnicities to create opportunitie for youth to relate positively to improve their circumstances. |
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The role of sport in promoting social integration, in particular of young people, is widely recognised. Sport […] a […] social phenomenon offers a common language and a platform for social democracy.
- Inter-agency TaskForce on Sport4Developm, United Nations
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Auma Obama,
Sports for Social Change Coordinator East Africa
CARE International, East & Central Africa Regional
P.O. Box 2039 - 00202
Nairobi,
Kenya
25474048491
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