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Volunteering experience in PLAY Kosovo – Lena Thobie-Gorce

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#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 as a volunteer for Sport4Youth has been decisive for her openness to others.

Sporting World Pledge Support for Refugees

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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 70 other sports organisations, have committed to helping young refugees discover their potentia

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 year and progresses unflappably since then.

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 to promote community reconciliation, t

2nd launch committee of Play'in Together

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#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.

 

PLAY Kosovo celebrates 20 years of success!

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#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.

Summer Camp Kosovo 2019

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#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 adolescents and children through sport.

Sport4Youth Diploma ceremony

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#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 the 39 volunteers received their Sport4Youth Diploma.

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.

Gala PLAY 2019 at the Shangri-La

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#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 20th anniversary.

 

After Vertigo 2019

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#France
#Événement

Thursday, May 16, from 5pm to 9pm, 1,150 runners attacked First Tower, France's tallest building with 954 steps.

Process of co-creation

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#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.

International Volunteers Day

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#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.

 

Gala PLAY 2018

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#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 116 000 €.

Disability inclusion

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#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 disability (according to an INSEE survey, 2015).

Celebration of sport with Radio France

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#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 into a huge playground for the occasion.

1 year birthday of AMEP project

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#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 deployment. This is an opportunity for us to present you with the main lines of the project.

Bootcamp sport and refugees

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#Incubator

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.

Playdagogy in Mayotte

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#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.

 

Playground 2017

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#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 dedicated to actors in sport, education and social change.

Playlab opening

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#Innovation

PLAY International opens the first collaborative space dedicated to social innovation through sport and games: the Playlab.

Anti-discrimination day in Kosovo

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#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.

PLAY with Burundian repatriate

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#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 repatriated populations.

Providing answers to sedentary

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#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 activity per day.

Fight Against Human Trafficking in Kosovo

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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 all for their labor.

Playdagogy in Bujumbura prisons

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#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 schoolchildren and those living in camps for displaced persons.

 

New Explorers on Canal +

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#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 Lakes region.

PLAY wins the Beyond Sport Awards 2014

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#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.

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 in the practice of rugby, their sport was until then unknown.