Celebrating Impact and Embracing a Regional Future: Highlights from PLAY International's Gala Fundraising Night in Kosovo #Kosovo #gala This past week, June, 3, PLAY International hosted its Gala Fundraising Night in Kosovo, an unforgettable evening of reflection, recognition, and renewed commitment to empowering youth across the Tuesday 10 June 2025
Happy New Year 2025! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! We wish everyone health, happiness, and fulfillment. But above all,let's have together an ambitious vision to build a more inclusive and active world. What if 2025 marked the Monday 6 January 2025
Sport and Inclusion: Supporting sports clubs to promote the inclusion of refugees in Italy #REPLAY #Italie #Réfugiés Due to its geographical position, Italy is often one of the first points of entry into Europe for people in exile. In 2022, over 20,000 unaccompanied minors arrived in the country, according to Friday 3 January 2025
INAUGURATION of PLAY International's Mission Rwanda #Rwanda PLAY International celebrated the official opening of its new mission in Rwanda during the inauguration evening on October 07, 2024 at L'hôtel Nobleza. Rwanda joins the list of countries such as Friday 18 October 2024
Goal2Include #Kosovo #Goal2Include Football, beloved worldwide, often faces barriers that limit access, particularly for women and girls in South-eastern Europe. The Goal2Include project aims to address these challenges by promoting Thursday 26 September 2024
Le te festojme/Let's celebrate #PLAY25 #Kosovo #gala To mark PLAY's 25th anniversary, Team Kosovo launched a major #PLAY25 campaign to raise public awareness of PLAY's work, collect donations and celebrate its quarter-century. The month of June was Wednesday 26 June 2024
Training to fight against discrimination #Kosovo #Sport4Resilience From February 27 to March 2, PLAY International Kosovo organised a five-day Training of Trainers session in Brezovica, Kosovo as part of the Sport4Resilience project. This event brought together 11 Tuesday 19 March 2024
Happy New Year 2024! #Sénégal #Burundi #France #Comores #Libéria #Kosovo happy new year 2024! PLAY International wishes you a Happy New Year! All the best! 1999-2024: learning through playing sports 2024 is a special year for PLAY, as our NGO will celebrate its 25th Monday 8 January 2024
Sport 4 Resilience 1st Steering Committee #Kosovo #Sport4Resilience On the 22nd of September, stakeholders from various sectors converged at the Sirius Hotel in Prishtina for the inaugural steering committee meeting of the Sport4Resilience project. This momentous Thursday 5 October 2023
Sport for Resilience Project Launched #Kosovo #living together The launch of the new "Sport for Resilience" project in Kosovo took place in the presence of some fifty guests on July 12. This 3-year project aims to contribute to the development of civic-minded, Monday 24 July 2023
When Ferizaj meets Gravelines #Kosovo #Disabilities #Inclusion #living together Six young Kosovar volunteers from the "From Ferizaj to Gravelines" project travelled to northern France from June 20 to 26, 2023, to set up socio-sport activities with youngsters from Dunkirk's Friday 30 June 2023
"From Ferizaj to Gravelines" : a unique French-Kosovar cooperation for children with disabilities #Kosovo #Disabilities #Inclusion #living together The project “From Ferizaj to Gravelines - inclusion and living together through sport” is the latest project launched by PLAY International Kosovo. The project consists of a youth exchange between the Wednesday 29 March 2023
Launch of the Pan-African Call for Projects for the second phase of the Strengthening of Sports and Inclusive Academies in Africa program #Sénégal ACADEMIES PROGRAM: A NEW CALL FOR PROJECTS IS LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT 12 AFRICAN SPORTS ACADEMIES A call for projects will be launched on March 13th, 2023 at 9:00 A.M. to select 12 new African sports Friday 10 March 2023
Highlight on the European program of refugees' inclusion #Inclusion #Réfugiés #Europe #socio-sport BACK ON THE PROGRAM'S 3RD YEAR Last feedback on the European programme for the social inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers through sport. During the last year of the programme, the Playlab Thursday 2 February 2023
Sport 4 Refugees in Slovaquie #Kosovo #Réfugiés As we come to the end of PLAY International’s three year ‘Sport 4 Refugees’ project, PLAY Kosovo joined forces with People In Need Slovakia (Človek v ohrození) to ensure that this project can support Thursday 22 December 2022
Une animatrice encourage la scolarisation des enfants vulnérables #EJO #Libéria Jugbeh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing (BSN) from the Mother Pattern School of Health Sciences and is a professional nurse assigned at the Government Hospital in Buchanan. As an Monday 24 October 2022
Testimony : Yiwah, the child with big dreams #Libéria #EJO With the Ejo project ("Tomorrow" in Kirundi), PLAY's ambition is to contribute to the construction of more inclusive societies and to allow each child to be an actor of his or her future. In Liberia, Tuesday 9 August 2022
Playlab on the field: to observe, challenge and improve contents from Oltalom's feedbacks and ground uses For few days, PLAY International (PLAY) had the opportunity to follow Oltalom Sport Association (OSA) on the field. It was a chance to observe and challenge PLAY’s socio-sport contents developed Wednesday 25 May 2022
PORTRAIT - Louise, the Passionate Teacher #Libéria #EJO #playdagogy For the International Women's Rights Day, discover the story of Louise, a Liberian teacher very involved in her job. Louise, teacher Louise is a female teacher assigned at the Buchanan Community Tuesday 8 March 2022
After Vertigo Challenge 2021 After a 1st edition in October 2020, the charity and connected sporting challenge Vertigo made its return from April 06 to 25. From Paris to Bujumbura to Ziguinchor, 530 participants from 14 companies Thursday 29 April 2021
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace PLAY INTERNATIONAL Committed toDEvElOPMENT Andpeace From its pioneering projects developed in emergency contexts in the early 2000s in Kosovo and Afghanistan to the EJO project which will benefit 80 Tuesday 6 April 2021
international women's day PLAY International is committed to women's rights! From its pioneering projects developed in emergency contexts in the early 2000s to the #Ejo project, which will benefit 32,000 girls aged 8 to 15, Friday 5 March 2021
Cardiobrainstorming #Playlab #cardiobrainstorming DISCOVER cardiobrainstorming ! Cardiobrainstorming is based on the benefits of physical activity and brainstorming methods to facilitate ideation. In fact, several studies* have shown that the main Wednesday 3 March 2021
Sport, refugees and social inclusion in Ile de France, the network is growing! #Playlab #Réfugiés Within the framework of the European program promoting the social inclusion of refugees through sport, PLAY International, together with Sport et Citoyenneté, leads a network of actors working with Wednesday 24 February 2021
Bootcamp incubator playlab West Africa #Playlab #Sénégal #Incubator #afrique de l'ouest The 1st bootcamp OF Playlab's accompaniment program in West Africa at the beginning of this year; The intensive training week bringing together the 5 West African Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Wednesday 10 February 2021
Best wishes 2021 PLAY International teams wish you a happy new year 2021 under the sign of solidarity and social innovation through sport. Thank you for your encouragement, your support and your mobilization which Wednesday 6 January 2021
Annual report EJO 2019-2020 #EJO PLAY International is pleased to share with you its activity report for the Ejo project after a year of achievements.Find the key figures for the year 2019-2020, 3 testimonials and the outlook for the Tuesday 17 November 2020
Change the Game not the Girl #Playtogether #mixité Sport should not separate girls and boys. And since team sports are often reserved for boys, it is up to the sport to become co-ed and not up to the girls to adapt. PLAY International and its partners Sunday 11 October 2020
The Playlab West Africa project leaders #Playlab #Incubator #Sénégal #afrique de l'ouest The Playlab's mission is to bring out and support the development of projects that use sport for education and inclusion. Following the call for projects aimed at Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Thursday 17 September 2020
2019 annual report #living together #Erasmus+ Discover in figures and key dates the progress of the PLAY'In Together projectover the past year. download the pdf Tuesday 25 August 2020
PLAY presents its 2019 annual report found out about the action and impact of play international in 2019 inour last annual report PLAY International's 2019 annual reportis now available ! A throw-back to this anniversary year, Thursday 9 July 2020
PLAY'In Together Phase 2 #living together #Erasmus+ On February 4th & 5th PLAY International together with its partner the Bulgarian Sport Development Association organized and hosted the second steering committee for the Erasmus+ Sport funded Wednesday 5 February 2020
Launch of a research-action program #France #digital education Wednesday29January2020. PressRelease.PLAYInternationallaunchesactionresearchprogram. Play International is launching a new initiative to create new collective solutions to the challenge of education Tuesday 28 January 2020
Volunteering experience in PLAY Kosovo – Lena Thobie-Gorce #Kosovo #Sport4Youth We are both facing each other, and Maida has just completed her activity with the children of her village, Novi Pazar in Serbia. Maida has been described to me as a very shy girl but whose experience Monday 27 January 2020
Sporting World Pledge Support for Refugees #Playlab #Réfugiés PLAY International have today joined the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Olympic Committee in pledging sporting support for refugees, ahead of next week’s Global Refugee Forum.Over Tuesday 10 December 2019
A progress snapshot of “Play’In Together” #Erasmus+ #living together #Inclusion The Erasmus+ Sport project, funded by the European Commission, PLAYIn Together, has started early this yearand progresses unflappably since then. The project aims to encourage European societies Monday 9 December 2019
20 years. Highlights of the celebration PLAY International celebrated 20 years of commitment to social change through sport this year. From September to November, a sequence of 4 events punctuated this celebration: the breakfast conference Wednesday 27 November 2019
20 years of impact From the Women's Garden project in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, to the Playlab sport and refugee incubator to support 7 European project leaders; From the Sport4Youth program in Kosovo Wednesday 18 September 2019
2nd launch committee of Play'in Together #Europe #Erasmus+ #Disabilities This week, PLAY International led the second launch committee of the European project “PLAY’In Together”, financed by the Erasmus+ Sport Program of the European Commission. 6 of the 9 consortium Friday 13 September 2019
PLAY Kosovo celebrates 20 years of success! #Kosovo #socio-sport To mark 20 wonderful years of work in education and peace through sport, PLAY Kosovo wanted to organize a wide range of activities to reconnect with and thank all of our stakeholders. The goal: to Thursday 5 September 2019
Summer Camp Kosovo 2019 #Kosovo #Inclusion #Sport4Youth #socio-sport Although the war has been over for 15 years now, tensions between the different communities are palpable.The Sport4Youth programme brings together Albanian, Serbian, Ashkali, Bosnian, Turkish and Roma Wednesday 7 August 2019
Sport4Youth Diploma ceremony #Kosovo #Sport4Youth On 27 June, volunteers from the 2018-2019 cohort of the Sport4Youth program had the opportunity to participate to their diploma ceremony! Almost a year and a half after they joining the program, 33 of Thursday 27 June 2019
PLAY fights against physical inactivity #inactivity #France #Active school Sedentary living is the 4th leading risk factor for death worldwide and responsible for 3 million preventable deaths. Faced with this alarming situation, PLAY International, with the support of Monday 17 June 2019
Gala PLAY 2019 at the Shangri-La #gala #Événement PLAY International and the Shangri-La Hotel, Paris, are looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday 19 November 2019 for the prestigious gala organised to benefit the association on the occasion of its Wednesday 5 June 2019
After Vertigo 2019 #vertigo #France #Événement Thursday, May 16, from 5pm to 9pm, 1,150 runners attacked First Tower, France's tallest building with 954 steps. While some had the objective of beating Piotr Lobodzinski's stratospheric record in 4 Thursday 16 May 2019
Process of co-creation #Playlab #playdagogy #socio-sport For 20 years now, PLAY International has been creating and implementing awareness and prevention programs using sports games and debate as educational vehicles. To do this, the NGO is committed to a Monday 6 May 2019
International Volunteers Day #Kosovo #Sport4Youth #Inclusion #socio-sport On 5 December every year, the world takes time to recognise the amazing efforts that volunteers make to change the lives of those around them. In Kosovo, PLAY International is privileged to work with Saturday 8 December 2018
Gala PLAY 2018 #gala #Événement On Wednesday evening, 246 champions, companies and donors attended the 7th PLAY International Gala. An evening of grace and business, foundations and sportsmen present, PLAY International to collect Wednesday 21 November 2018
Disability inclusion #playdagogy #France #Disabilities PLAY International is committed to changing representations and behaviours regarding disability.In France, about 12 million adults and children (18.5% of the population) are affected by at least one Wednesday 31 October 2018
Celebration of sport with Radio France #vertigo #Événement #France On Sunday 23 September 2018, the Radio France group and PLAY International joined forces to celebrate the sport. For the 4th edition, 2,613 participants were able to discover a round house transformed Sunday 23 September 2018
1 year birthday of AMEP project #AMEP #Schooling #Burundi On 29 March 2017, the first steering committee of the "Education for All : Access to and Maintenance of the School for Burundian Children through Advocacy" (AMEP) took place after one year of Tuesday 24 July 2018
Bootcamp sport and refugees #Playlab #Incubator #Réfugiés From 18 to 22 June 2018, 7 projects from 7 European countries benefited from a week of intensive support at Insep Paris and Playlab as part of the Sport & Refugees incubation programme. The Monday 18 June 2018
Playdagogy in Mayotte #playdagogy #Mayotte #living together #Education On Tuesday 13 March 2018, PLAY International and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) de Mayotte signed a partnership agreement to set up and distribute the "Playdagogy" programme in Mayotte. Tuesday 29 May 2018
Playground 2017 #Playlab #Innovation #playdagogy #Active school On 17 and 18 October 2017 - under the patronage of the Ministry of National Education and the sponsorship of the City of Paris - PLAY International organised the third edition of the Playground Friday 20 October 2017
Playlab opening #Playlab #Innovation PLAY International opens the first collaborative space dedicated to social innovation through sport and games: the Playlab. A place of co-creation, sharing and support, this system aims to enable Monday 25 September 2017
Anti-discrimination day in Kosovo #Kosovo #Inclusion #socio-sport #Sport4Youth On Saturday, October 1, PLAY International's Kosovo mission organised an anti-discrimination day to highlight the importance of inter-community dialogue. More than 300 people participated in this Friday 14 October 2016
PLAY with Burundian repatriate #Burundi #Inclusion Since April 2015, PLAY International has been present in 4 Integrated Rural Villages (IRVs) in southern Burundi. VRIs are villages, often located in remote areas, created especially to accommodate Wednesday 5 October 2016
Providing answers to sedentary #Playlab #inactivity #Active school This generation is undoubtedly the most inactive in our history. According to the World Health Organization, only 11% of girls and 25% of boys aged 11 practice the recommended 60 minutes of physical Tuesday 14 June 2016
Agreement with Ministry of National Education #France #Education #playdagogy The Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research and PLAY International sign a framework agreement. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Wednesday 13 January 2016
Fight Against Human Trafficking in Kosovo #Kosovo Human trafficking is modern slavery. People use force, lies, and other forms of pressure to take advantage and control someone. The victim does unwilling work, but does not get paid enough or paid at Monday 20 July 2015
Playdagogy in Bujumbura prisons #playdagogy #Burundi #Insertion Since 2008 in Burundi, the PLAY International team has placed the themes of violence, living together, children's rights and HIV at the heart of sports activities. Its action affects both Wednesday 25 February 2015
New Explorers on Canal + #Burundi #playdagogy The New Explorers in the Great Lakes Region!In the episode New Explorers, broadcast on Canal + on November 30, 2014, Manuel Herrero introduces us to the sports culture of three countries in the Great Monday 24 November 2014
PLAY wins the Beyond Sport Awards 2014 #Kosovo #Sport4Youth #socio-sport #Inclusion Since 2009, Beyond Sport trophies have been awarded annually to the best international projects that promote the use of sport as a positive vehicle for social change. Among the 350 pre-selected Thursday 30 October 2014
Introducing rugby to Burundi #Burundi #living together #socio-sport From 26 to 30 May 2014, two rugby ambassadors, Pierre Rabadan (Stade Français) and Salim Tebani (US Oyonnax), visited Burundi with our teams. They participated in the training of our local animators Monday 26 May 2014
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