UNHCR Sport for the Refugees

Yemen

Title
UNHCR Sport for the Refugees
Status
Completed
Start date
2008
Project description

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.

Aim

To ensure physical activity and recreation in this refugee camp

Target group
Refugees, youth, women
Partners

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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