UNHCR Sport for the Refugees
Yemen
The ITTF expert delivered a coaching course, training camp and a tournament. The sessions were divided by ages, where the aim with the children was to teach the basic techniques and make them have fun and with the adults to motivate them to follow up the coaches. This was the first project organised by the ITTF in cooperation with an agency of the United Nations.
To ensure physical activity and recreation in this refugee camp
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Context:
According to the UNHCR statistics, the refugees stay on the refugees camps for between 10 and 20 years, in many cases without the right to get out of the camp, or work or have access to sport or recreational activities. The sport in refugee camps gives them the chance to do some physical activity and to build a relationship among them in a different context, the recreational in this case
Project Content:
The ITTF expert delivered a coaching course, trianing camp and a tournament. The sessions were divided by ages, where the aim with the children was to teach the basic techniques and let them have fun ; with the adults, the aim was to motivate them to follow up and become coaches. A special emphasis was to promote the inclusion of women and girls to take part in the activities
Objectives:
- Providing a leisure activity to refugees in this camp
- Adults having the opportunity to become coaches in the camp
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