Kenya Youth Sports4Peace & Reconciliation Project

Summary

The project will give approx. 60 Kenyan youth, displaced through ethnic violence, an opportunity to engage with each other in intercultural dialogue & reconciliation through Sport activity & wkshops.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

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.

How will this project solve this problem?

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.

Potential Long Term Impact

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.

Project Message

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

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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