Your Stories behind the #WhiteCard
JJIF: Ju-Jitsu for Good
April 10 at 5:00pm we launch the “Ju-Jitsu for Good” program with a vision of working towards “a better world through Ju-jitsu.”We will be featuring Ju-jitsu based projects that have made a significant impact on the communities and lives around them. Be inspired....
Meggie: Fighting child sexual violence through sports
The child survivors of sexual violence started in 2016 and now they are the ones teaching other children. They are empowered not just to teach but to speak against the issue and move others to act on it.
Football for Humanity, For Peace
With Football for Humanity, football coaches in the Philippines will be invited to an webinar/open discussion which will look at how peace can be achieved through sport. Then, the coaches will share their own stories and photos on sport and peace and support their...
Aurore – Using sport for Peace Education
I do believe that if those clubs are supported and the advocacy is made, peace will flourish all over the country. My put in this is to provide a consistent support to those clubs and making sure that mobilization and advocacy are done regularly.
Germaine – Working for gender equity through Sport
My initiative is to increase mobilization strategies geared to change attitude and mindsets in communities in regard to gender equality and equity ; this will include evidence-based strategies such as sharing success stories and testimonies on gender equity mostly...
Kids say: Give us a chance!
Local community of the town Lazarevac in Serbia encourages kickboxing clubs to gather as much children as possible and offer them quality activities during their spare time. Programs defined by professionals and licensed coaches are fighting against obesity and...
Janviere – Community Mobilizer and Facilitator
My Initiative is to help mobilize my fellow Rwandans to leave in Peace and Harmony through improving their livelihoods and discarding any elemnting of ethinc discrimnation.I am doing this benchmarking on my experience of doing the same work for my community for AKWOS...
Grace – Rwanda’s first woman football-referee
AKWOS (Organization of Women in Sports) is local Non-Governmental Organization that Felicite founded in 1998 with a mission to empower East-African Women through sports starting from Rwanda, in Education, gender equality, peace-building, conflict management and...
Success for the girls doesn’t come easy
Inclusion as much girls as possible to get into kickboxing trainings as the way of the empowerment young girls to start and stay in sport.Traditional gender roles in the local communities define the lifes of girls who are afraid to put the sport at the highest...
Mohammad & Doaa Al Ayoub: Taekwondo is our constant companion
They have also become more disciplined.Sport plays a major role in qualifying individuals and providing them with skills that help them integrate peacefully with people and in their societies. I realized that sport is one of the most important individual development...
Wael Al Farraj: Taekwondo has influenced me positively
My ambition is to participte in 2020 Olympic Games; I will do my best and train hard, so I can reach my dream.
Abed Al Majeed Khalid: Sport is one of the positive things in our daily life
And Taekwondo is considered one of the most positive experiences that reflected on my personality and created peace within my soul.I dream of being a champion!
Yehya Al Ghotani: Taekwondo has become an essential part of my daily life
Because it was a turning point for me and became one of my most cherished interests and dreams.
WKF mobilises Karate community for April6
The World Karate Federation has launched an online campaign to engage the Karate community in the celebration of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) on April 6.Karate’s international governing body aims at involving the Karate world in...
Douglas Brose’s story: World champion raising the White Card and using Karate to help youngsters
“Karate is the perfect sport to exemplify all the principles that the #WhiteCard campaign entails. Our sport is accessible to everyone, popular and well-known all over the world, and has a core philosophy that highlights the principles of the #WhiteCard campaign and...
Nermin & Laren Emad Hassan: As sisters, we love life and we love sports!
We are living in the Zaatari refugee camp and we are practicing Self-Defense as part of the Peace and Sport program. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, we are still practicing self-defense thanks to the support of our coach Nesrin.
Khalil Ibrahim Hariri: Sport helped me to stay focused on my objectives
I live in the Zaatari refugee camp and I am playing sport everyday as part of the Peace and Sport program.I love playing Teqball, as I need to be focused on my technics. It is also a great way to gather all my friends and to challenge ourselves around the table!
Shaima Musa Malak: Sport helped me to be more self-confident
I joined Peace and Sport’s table-tennis program last year and thanks to my coach Noor, I learned important values such as respect and team spirit.
Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Jado: Table-tennis is an important part of my daily life
Table-Tennis is a popular sport in Zaatari Refugee Camp since the President of the International Table Tennis Federation, the President of Peace and Sport, and the Champion of Peace, Seung-Min Ryu visited us 3 years-ago.Since then, more than 150 kids are practicing...
Mohamed Maher Al-Nasser: Sport, especially kickboxing changed my life
I joined Peace and Sport’s kickboxing activities led by Captain Ali 3 years-ago and thanks to those training sessions I am more self-confident as I learnt to know myself and my body. I became more mature and gained new experiences through sport, which helped me in my...
I am Gerald Mballe, I am refugee living in Italy ,Milano and as well a Unified Partner. Today I am also very honored to be the Advisor for Unified with Refugees for SOEE
Unified with Refugees programming for SOEE is bringing inclusive development to people on the move to the most marginalized once of our society a movement of inclusion that uses sport for social change.
Felicite Rwemarika: empowering East-African Women through sports
AKWOS (Organization of Women in Sports) is local Non-Governmental Organization that Felicite founded in 1998 with a mission to empower East-African Women through sports starting from Rwanda, in Education, gender equality, peace-building, conflict management and...
Marlène Harnois : Plus forts ensemble
En tant que Championne de la Paix, Marlène Harnois a joué un rôle actif dans le soutien et le mentorat des prodiges locaux du taekwondo Ruth Gbagbi et Cheick Cissé. Après leurs victoires historiques aux Jeux olympiques de Rio, Cheick et Ruth sont devenus des héros...
WKF to engage Karate community for April 6
The World Karate Federation celebrates the transformative power of sport and joins the global movement of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) on April 6. “The core message of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace goes...
World Karate Federation President, Antonio Espinós: Karate ready to celebrate sport as tool to promote peace on April 6
The WKF calls all Karate fans to post their pictures holding the #WhiteCard.“As we have done over the past few years, we are holding the #WhiteCard as a symbol of unity and global cooperation. I am sure that many Karate fans around the world will also join the...
Tom Hickson: Dodgeball Inclusion
Raise awareness of how the World Dodgeball Association (WDA) is supporting National Federations and local communities to improve the lives of people across the World. Increase opportunities to access WDA Community Dodgeball support. Increase opportunities to access...
Ball To All and Celebrity Goalie Ivo Mapunda Deliver in Tanzania
Ball To AllBall To All is a non-profit (501c3) organization that was founded with a simple premise: keep kids playing – it will help them grow healthier, happier and at the same time, keep them out of trouble.The mission is simple and captured in the slogan: Every Kid...
PSIUS 2021 #AWARENESS 360 (ONE YEAR)
PSIUS 2021 #AWARENESS 360(1ST JANUARY TO 31 DECEMBER 2021)https://www.psius.org/psius-x/friends-familyPINGPONGPHILIC STARTUP INCUBATION UNIQUE SOCIETY (PSIUS)Goal of Your Event:As TABLE TENNIS Promoter at Grassroots Level Celebrate WTTD 2021 (WHOLE YEAR) & also...
Webinar on Achieving Disability Inclusion in Sports
Webinar targeting 8 Countries in the Eastern Africa Region
NATIONAL JUDO FEDERATION OF CHILE DEVELOPS AN INNOVATIVE PROGRAM OF PERSONALIZED JUDO IN TIME OF PANDEMIC
Santiago de Chile. Chile.- In the context of the great difficulties that all sports and martial arts have experienced, judo and its selected Dojos, face many setbacks to this day due to the close contact that the practice of our discipline supposes.Despite this, the...
FEDERACION NACIONAL DE JUDO CHILE DESARROLLA UN PROGRAMA INNOVADOR DEL JUDO PERSONALIZADO EN TIEMPO DE PANDEMIA
Santiago de Chile. Chile.- En el contexto de las grandes dificultades que hemos experimentado todos los deportes y artes marciales, el judo y sus respectivos Dojos, enfrentan hasta hoy en día muchos contratiempos por el contacto estrecho que supone la práctica de...
Vital Yamuremye: Sport for peace education
Vital Yamuremye, 35 years old, is Sport Simple coordinator with Peace and Sport. He is also teaching at the School of Excellence of Makamba, Burundi.
Eric Nzohabonayo: Sharing positive values through sport
Eric Nzohabonayo, 35 years old, is teaching at Nyabigina high school, Makamba province, Burundi. After school, he leads weekly peace-through-sport activities for children in the framework of Peace and Sport Methodology.
Misbah Hina: Empowering girls through Volleyball
Misbah Volleyball Academy has been promoting sports and physical activities among girls in the area as well as in capital by organizing various training sessions and fitness camps with special focus on how to maintain healthy diet and healthy lifestyle in order to...
Sreynuth: Football as a tool for education to young girls in Cambodia
ISF’s ‘Football for Social Outreach’ project trains coaches across Cambodia to deliver football-for-good lessons to disadvantaged children. Using ISF’s bespoke social impact curriculum, coaches improve players’ understanding of social issues and encourage them to make...
CONSTRUCTORS OF PEACE
"These events overflooded my sense of humanity. Yes, in the deepest of my being, a great challenge set root; a challenge which in that moment perhaps only was nostalgia, but which day by day turned into my most important objective—the objective which I fight for...
Esleider: I like surfing because I am having fun
My name is Esleider and I am living in the community of Tierrabomba, in Colombia. Thanks to Amigos del Mar Foundation, I can go surfing after school. Amigos del Mar Foundation is a Colombian NGO that fosters development through sport, education and entrepreneurship in...
Keiler: I want to become a professional surfer and travel all over the world
My name is Keiler and I live in Tierrabomba, in Colombia. After school, I go surfing thanks to Amigos del Mar Foundation, a Colombian NGO willing to improve the living conditions of the community of Tierrabomba. The programs are focused on development through sport,...
SO Unified Pair Nikos and Stellios: Football made us best friends
Our names are Stellios Diakatos (Special Olympics athlete) and Nikos Mpafaloukos (secondary school student) and we are from Greece. We are teammates in a Special Olympics Unified football Team since 2019, we train and compete together and we have created a strong...
Olga Dasoura: Everything is possible through sports
When still a child the Special Olympics family embraced me and today I am an athlete, a World Champion. My achievements helped my community accept me. Through sports I felt loved, confident, independent and capable of many things. Today I raise my white card for...
How to fail in the biggest sport organisation?
DEAR PEACE IN SPORT, WHEN I STARTED TO THINK ABOUT THE MANAGEMENT OF SPORT IN MY EARLY STUDIES OF WHAT SHOULD SPORT GO IN THERM OF AN ORGANISATION AND HOW THE POWER PF SPORT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD AND HUMANITY. MY PROJECT WAS MORE ENCLINED TO ACT AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF...
Marlene Harnois: Stronger Together
As Champion for Peace, Marlene Harnois played an active role in supporting and mentoring local taekwondo prodigies Ruth Gbagbi and Cheick Cissé. Following their historical victories at the Rio Olympic Games, Cheick and Ruth have become national heroes. They are now...
Gabriel Tabona : Audio content development on grassroots sport
Spoti Sauti is an online audio platform that develop content geared towards exposing the Kenyan and African sporting profile to the world. Spoti Sauti highlight how socio-economic ,political and environmental issues intersect to affect access to sport. We are on...
“LET’S GO TO THE CUP”
Participating in local, national, and international tournaments allows us to understand that the participation of boys, girls, and young adolescents is a process of inclusion which allows changing their realities, attitudes and thoughts. It doesn’t only the vision of...
Rugby makes your life better
On every sport fields, in the country side or even in the big cities, it is so easy to gather and share a moment of sport.
Living together as refugees
Ibrahim, 32, comes from Daraa, Syria. He loves sports and used to be a football player. He had to flee the war and arrived in Zaatari in 2016. He participated in the football coaching seminars led by the UEFA Foundation in the camp. He worked for IRD as logistics...
Amir: Empowering the new generation through sport
Amir, 43 years old comes from Daraa city in Syria. He was a football coach in Syria. Since his arrival in the camp, he has been involved in many sport activities and seminaries (Football, Teqball, Baseball5). He then joined the Live Together Program in 2019 as a Table...
Silas Nduwayezu: Sport as a tool to teach
Silas Nduwayezu is 34 years old. He is a teacher at Giheta high school, Gitega province, Burundi. Trained to the Peace and Sport Methodology in the framework of the African Great Lakes program, he leads weekly activities for children after school.
Marios: The #Whitecard brings people together
When I play football, I don’t care where you come from, what you believe in, what color you are, or how old you are. That is why, when I raise my #Whitecard, I believe in a symbol that brings people together and that stands for the importance of
respecting and enjoying the game.
Girls can be great football players
I am part of AS Monaco Women’s Football team and I ampassionate about football. Since meeting the Champion for Peaceand international football player, Melissa Plaza, I am convinced thatgirls can be great football players.
Using sports against social exclusion
I am a Basketball coach with the Bel Avenir organization, and I have a passion for teaching and sharing the positive values of sports with upcoming generations. As a Basketball coach, we play a key role in educating and transmitting values that will mark the...