INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE

We are all in the same boat: Nikita Juravlev and the passion for rafting

by | Apr 5, 2021 | Intercultural and interreligious understanding, Peace education, Reconciliation and co-existence | 0 comments

The passion that river people share leads to an incredible intercultural understanding. Rafting guides, technicians and athletes, with the support of the World Rafting Federation, learn to cooperate and look forward, with the aim to transform the differences into strength and a starting point for a positive and productive confrontation. Rafting as a team sport is a perfect platform to increase a global cooperation and raise awareness about its benefits.

  • The respect we learn from the river makes us similar to each other. I feel more similar to someone doing rafting on the other side of the world than to people I see everyday in the city. That’s the unique power of our sport: we are all in the same boat.
    We one big common passion that transforms all the small differences into strength and opportunities.

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