Press Release – Children Gathered To Play Sports In Viqueque

PRESS RELEASE

Dili, Timor-Leste · Tuesday, 3 November 2015

SportImpact organized on Saturday, October 31, in Viqueque,
the 11^th edition of ‘Sport for Life’

At the 11th edition of ‘Sport for Life’ over hundred children and youngsters in Viqueque experienced 6 different sports.

The event was co-organized with 11 participants of a five-day workshop at the Viqueque Youth Center on “Guide for Organizing Sport Events”. During the workshop the participants were stimulated by SportImpact facilitators to empower themselves to pursue their projects and dreams instead of just waiting for external support. Inspired by Peace and Sport’s Adapted Sport Manual, they built sport equipment for the event from local materials and recycled garbage, overcoming the lack of official (and expensive) equipment.

In the coming months, thanks to support from UNESCO, SportImpact is taking ‘Sport for Life’ to the remaining two municipalities, completing the whole country:

• Ainaro: workshop 16-20 Nov, sport event on 21/Nov
• Same: workshop 30/Nov-04/Dec, sport event on 05/Dec

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Unfortunately, SportImpact intends to shutdown the ‘Sport for Life’ program at end of the year due to lack of funding (just $7,281 to date). In 2016 SportImpact had envisioned replicating the initiative around Timor-Leste, ensuring a legacy of continued sport practice and human development through local sport clubs and associations. SportImpact is actively looking for partners and financial support that could make this viable.

SportImpact thanks in particular UNESCO for financial support to four municipalities, MOVE – Catholic University of Portugal for committed volunteers, Peace and Sport for creating and sharing the Adapted Sport Manual, and the One World Play Project, for ‘indestructible’ footballs through ChildFund. For this event SportImpact appreciates the support from all co-organizers and volunteers from Timor-Leste Volleyball Federation, Timor-Leste Football Federation, Timor-Leste Sport Confederation, Timor-Leste National Youth Council, Youth Centre of Viqueque, local schools, among others.

For more information about ‘Sport for Life’ and Sportimpact: www.sportimpact.org  |  www.facebook.com/sportimpact.org

Contacts: events@sportimpact.org, Tel. (+670) 7801 4000