Press release – SportImpact event gathers over six hundred kids in Baucau

PRESS RELEASE

Dili, Timor-Leste · Monday, 28 September 2015

To celebrate “Sport for Life”, SportImpact organized on Saturday, September 19, a multi-sport event in the Football Field of Baucau

Over six hundred children and young people, and dozens of adults, experienced for free 11 different sports: athletics, badminton, basketball, beach tennis, boxing, football, table tennis, taekwondo, traditional games, volleyball and zumba.

In this event was achieved a big number of sports using adapted materials. The co-organizers were inspired by the Adapted Sport Manual and were able to overcome the lack of required equipment by adapting local materials and recycling garbage.

Showing that goodwill, collaboration and determination make everything possible, the event was organized jointly with local organizations: Youth Centre Oasis, local representatives of Timor-Leste Sport Confederation, Association of Silat, Football, Basketball, and of Volleyball of Baucau, among others.

SportImpact also organized a five-day workshop at the Baucau Youth Center on “Guide for Organizing Sport Events”, where 29 local representatives of Youth Centre Oasis, Timor-Leste National Youth Council, Association of Taekwondo, Boxing, Basketball, and of Volleyball of Baucau, among others, took part. Participants co-organized the event last Saturday, practicing what they learned in the workshop, and are already planning how to organize their own events in the future.

According to SportImpact, the future continuity of the project is uncertain due to lack of support for 2016, even with small budget.

In 2016 SportImpact has envisioned replicating the “Sport for Life” initiative at sub-municipality level around Timor-Leste and is actively looking for partners and financial support that can make this viable.

SportImpact thanks in particular the support from World Vision, that is helping with the logistics in 3 municipalities, to UNESCO, that is supporting financially the “Sport for Life” in 4 municipalities, to MOVE – Catholic University of Portugal through four volunteers in part-time, Peace and Sport for creating and sharing the Adapted Sport Manual, and the One World Play Project, who offered ‘indestructible’ footballs through ChildFund. For this event SportImpact appreciates the support from all co-organizers and volunteers.

 About the event “Sport For Life”

The “Sport for Life” event is co-organized by SportImpact with as many local groups and organizations as possible, to offer to kids, the youth and the public in general the opportunity to try a variety of sports in one place (typically a local major football field or stadium if available). We invite all the schools in the region to bring their kids. The objective is to show that a large infrastructure is not necessary to implement these events and to encourage local groups and associations to organize similar initiatives in the future.

These events also include health and education components (so far on non-smoking and no littering). Sportimpact is looking for partners who can see the events as a good channel and may want to enrich them with their own contents.

In the coming months, SportImpact will take this project to Aileu and thanks to support from UNESCO is also taking it to the remaining 4 municipalities, completing all the country:

• Aileu: workshop 28/Sep-02/Oct, sport event on 03/Oct
• Suai: workshop 12-16/Oct, sport event on 17/ Oct
• Viqueque: workshop 26-30/Oct, sport event on 31/ Oct
• 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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 About SportImpact

SportImpact is a social business with the mission to promote human development through sport. Our founders are experts in sport management, social entrepreneurship and conflict management, with a diversity of international experiences developing sport in countries such as Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Brazil, Portugal and Singapore.

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