Education-through-sport
With over 60 years of combined professional experience in sport development, youth sport and sport psychology, Champions for Children has a deep understanding of the power of sport to contribute to an environment of social change on a global scale.
The educational value of sport cannot be underestimated. At its most fundamental level it teaches teamwork, fair play and responsibility to others. But building football fields, netball and basketball courts and organising competitions is simply not enough. Champions believe in sport as an instrument to overcome social challenges in the fields of children’s rights & values education, anti-discrimination & social integration, health promotion. Through sport, fundamental values are being communicated to inspire positive change among both individuals and communities, which lead to a better quality of life.
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Multi Purpose Playground. Almere - Holland.
The Project
Designed as a multipurpose area, the Clarence Seedorf Playground is a project created to transmit an educational methodology to youth and the entire community through a shared-sports area including a soccer field with artificial turf, tennis and basketball courts and multi-use areas (badminton, volleyball, "boules" played predominately by older community members).
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Para Junior Football League. Paramaribo - Suriname
The Para Junior Football League PJL was inaugurated on October 27, 2007 and is composed of young players ages 9 to 15 from the region of Para, located 30 kilometers from the country’s capital.
The league has a total of 8 clubs and 32 teams and is the first activity of the organizing committee FUWIVA (Future With Values) in Suriname.
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Sport to School. Phnom Penh - Cambodia
This project involves the promotion of sport as an alternative to use of drugs and to life on the streets. The promotion of a range sports activities and further development of sporting facilities in a centre with 200 children, has assisted in rescuing children from the street and ensuring their access to education.
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Construction of the "Sport and Recreational center Novos Alagados"
Salvador da Bahia, capital of the State of Bahia, is Brazil’s third largest city per capita with a metropolitan region (RMS) that includes approximately 3.5 million people.
The past twenty years have seen an accelerated and disorganized demographic growth in Salvador’s Metropolitan Region that has created an urban landscape characterized by many unofficial areas where the quality of life is very poor.
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