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How are sport for development organizations keeping children healthy during COVID-19?

UNICEF

UNICEF developed a blog to explore how Sport for Development (S4D) organisations have responded and adapted their programming to support children during the COVID-19 crisis. S4D organisations use sport as a tool to catalyse positive change in the lives of children, youth and the communities they live in. Interviews with S4D organizations, conducted as part of the ongoing research commissioned by the Barça Foundation and UNICEF partnership, revealed that organizations are innovating to adapt to the current crisis through three key interconnected practices:

Continuing to support children through remote sessions, with coaches providing guidance for physical activity along with content to accomplish a variety of social goals.
Providing critical and accurate health and COVID-19 information through coaches, who are in many cases trusted individuals in communities.
Supporting their staff in helping other programmes, such as feeding programmes, while sports activities are closed.

Click here to access the blog

Good Health
Organisation / Experts

The Gift of the Givers

https://giftofthegivers.org/

The Gift of the Givers Foundation is the largest disaster response non-governmental organisation of African origin on the African continent. The essence of their presence is to bring hope and restore dignity to the most vulnerable.

The Gift of the Givers Foundation regularly raise funds for hunger alleviation through proceeds from marathon race

Location: - South Africa info@giftofthegivers.org
No Hunger
Organisation / Experts

The Homeless World Cup Foundation

https://homelessworldcup.org/

The Homeless World Cup Foundation is a pioneering charity which uses football to inspire people who are homeless to change their own lives.

Their vision is for a world without homelessness.

Their mission is to use football to support and inspire people who are homeless to change their own lives; and to change perceptions and attitudes towards people who are experiencing homelessness.

The Homeless World Cup Foundation operates through a Network of Street Football Partners across 70+ countries to support grassroots football programmes. They provide a focus for—and celebration of—their year-round activity by organising and delivering an annual, world-class, international football tournament for national teams of men and women who are homeless.

Location:
Good HealthNo Poverty
Organisation / Experts

Ball to All

http://www.balltoall.org

Ball To All is a non-profit organization located in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 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.

Ball to All mission is simple and captured in the slogan: Every Kid Can Have A Ball.

How Did Ball To All Start?

One day in early 2013, Ori Eisen, Founder of Ball to All asked Nikolas Mangu, one his colleagues who grew up in Kenya, what was the most fun thing to do when he was a kid? “Playing soccer, of course” he said. Soccer is the world’s most popular sport. Growing up with limited means in Kenya meant that kids had to improvise, and make soccer balls out of anything they could find.

In May of 2013, Nikolas was about to go back home to Kenya on his annual vacation. Ori Eisen asked him if he would do him a favor, and deliver five soccer balls to the same school he went to when he was a kid. He obliged and so began what grew to become Ball To All.

The rest is history and is depicted on our the Organisations website: www.balltoall.org.

Location: - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Good HealthNo PovertyQuality Education
March 24, 2021
News / Interviews

Seven Sailing Clubs in Northern Ireland Get Sports Sustainability Funding

Seven sailing clubs in Northern Ireland have been awarded funding totalling £174,343 through the Department of Communities Sports Sustainability Fund. They are Ballyholme who […]

Climate ActionLife Below Water
March 24, 2021
News / Interviews

F1 announce plans for WeRaceAsOne in partnership with Global Citizen

Following the recent announcement that the WeRaceAsOne initiative will become the official Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) platform for Formula 1, in support of the […]

Climate ActionResponsible Consumption
March 24, 2021
News / Interviews

Hannah Mills sailing towards a more sustainable future

Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills, MBE, is no stranger to beating the odds. But the 32-year-old admits that her latest challenge could be the […]

Climate ActionLife Below WaterResponsible ConsumptionSustainable Cities and Communities
March 23, 2021
News / Interviews

Bolidt supplies ‘floating paddock’ for sustainable off-road championship

Leading resin applications expert Bolidt has supplied outdoor decking for RMS St Helena, the ‘floating paddock’ that will support a forthcoming series of sustainable […]

Climate ActionLife on LandResponsible Consumption
Case Studies

Coral reef restoration

IOC / World Sailing

Rising water levels, air pollution and the destruction of biodiversity on land might be at the top of our minds when it comes to climate change, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Under our oceans, the destruction of the world’s coral reef is something worthy of urgent attention.
Beyond providing natural beauty, coral reefs are of extreme importance to on-land and underwater life. They offer our coastlines a natural protection from damaging wave action and tropical storms, and assist in carbon and nitrogen fixing, a fundamental piece in the fight against climate action.
Moreover, as much as 25% of our marine life depend on them as they provide habitat, shelter and nutrients. An estimated 4,000 fish species rely on them at some point in their existence.
World Sailing's 2020 Hempel World Cup Series Miami was identified by World Sailing as the perfect opportunity to bring education and action together in alignment with the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and the WS Sustainability Agenda 2030.
In partnership with their title sponsor, Hempel A/S, and the Rescue a Reef programme at the University of Miami (UM), the event managed to collect 250kg of marine litter, and create awareness among hundreds of athletes and volunteers.

BENEFITS
• 250kg of marine litter was removed from a local mangrove ecosystem and 150 corals were out planted.
• Close to 150 athletes and local sailors were engaged in education and action against the impact of climate change.
• The project received positive feedback from the sailors, created a positive impact in the local community and provided sponsors with a new powerful platform to engage with the sailing community.

Click here to download the Case Study

Climate ActionLife Below WaterPartnerships for the GoalsQuality Education
March 20, 2021
News / Interviews

The 5 best green stadium in the world

In the many ways in which football can contribute to solving environmental problems, the sustainability of stadiums is the first step. Clubs are continuing to work […]

Source: NSS Sports
Climate ActionResponsible Consumption