I wasn’t predestined to become a pole-vaulter. I could even have missed out on athletics altogether. I began playing sport very early in life, around 5 years old, and I started with gymnastics. I practiced it for 10 years until getting to Masters level. At 15, I...
The PyeongChang Olympic Games provided a forceful and eloquent illustration: sport can succeed where politics fail. The sight of the two Koreas walking together in a procession transmitted a worldwide message of peace and harmony. In the passage of time, there will be...
I was born in Benin, Africa. It’s a poor country, with sparse conditions for playing sport and even more limited training resources. That’s how it was when I was young. And things have hardly changed since then. Despite all this sport was a dream for me...
Major sporting events don’t only have winners and losers. They don’t only have the power to bring people together in stadiums or in front of their televisions. They inspire entire generations. And they do even more than this. Major sporting events can open the door to...
There’s a special image that will always make us think of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: two athletes – a man and a woman – from the Korean delegation enter the stadium at the opening ceremony. One is from the South, the other from the North, both...
Last friday, the entire world had its eyes turned towards Pyeongchang. Everyone watched the splendid pageant of the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony with excitement and emotion. During the delegations’ procession, they saw 166 Korean athletes walking in...
What is the priority of sport for peace in 2018? Should we focus on teaching, so that sport can create social change at schools and universities around the world? Should we promote sport for peace as a top priority for policy makers and governments? Should we...
Since 2013 local youths with a great passion for basketball have decided to spend eleven months serving as ENGAGE Sport Coaches, ESCs the flagship program promoted by ENGAGE, a small not for profit working in Nepal in the field of social inclusion and disability...
Haiti is a country with a strong history, while it is mostly known for being one of the poorest nations in the world; it is worth noticing that it was the first black led republic and the first independent Caribbean state in 1804. The past few years brought various...
Nine new Champions for Peace are coming together for the International Day of Peace on 21 September to publicize the inspiring values of sport which have the capacity to push the boundaries of achievement, rise above poverty and exclusion, overcome marginalization and...
Promo Jeune Basket has always believed that sport has the power to teach young people important values and lessons in their lives. The four program values – hard work, discipline, team spirit, and respect – are fundamental to the basketball practices that Promo Jeune...
It is often said that the hope of a country is its children and youth. In that sense, Timor-Leste has much to be hopeful about, as it is still a new, fragile and post-conflict nation and with the highest proportion of youth in the Southeast Asia region. In this...