By Helen Vost | Managing Director
The recent bombing of Lebanon has not stopped young Syrian refugees from pursuing their education and playing cricket. Even when they have slept overnight on the street for increased safety, they still attend classes the next day and lessons are quickly moved online when education centres have to close due to warnings of bombs.
The Alsama Project has four education centres in Beirut with 950 students, more than 60% of whom are girls. Cricket is a major part of the programme offered to refugees and Alsama Cricket has become the largest refugee youth cricket programme in the Middle East, with over 800 players (more than half are girls) across 23 hubs. As a non-contact, skills-based sport, boys and girls of all ages can play cricket together. That makes cricket uniquely suited to the cultural context of a refugee camp in the Middle East.
With your help, Youth Sport Trust International is committed to supporting Alsama Cricket and will be running further online youth sport leadership courses to build the life skills young people need to thrive both on and off the field.
THANK YOU
By Helen Vost | Managing Director
By Helen Vost | Managing Director
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