CALENDAR: Recent and Future Events (Most Recent First)
Date
Location
Event
November 25
- May 22, 2015
- May 22, 2015
Glasgow
Camera Voices exhibit
October 28-30, 2014
Johannesburg
Beyond Sport Summit
Fall 2014
Worldwide
2014 Global Peace Games take place
around the world
April 6, 2014
Africa
International Day of Sport for
Development and Peace to be celebrated at Ghana, Malawi and South Africa
program sites
April, 2014
Malawi and South Africa
Basic training and certification
workshops for volunteer instructors to learn the 2014 Play for Fun,
Learn for Life curriculum
January, 2014
Ghana
An important weeklong International
training workshop was held in Ghana at the Oguaa Football for Hope
Center to introduce the revised program curriculum for 2014
implementation. Workshop Participants included the Program Directors
from Malawi and South Africa, the Executive Director of PSNI,
representatives from Cape Coast University, the Chief of the Oguaa
Traditional area who presented the workshop certificates, and other
invited guests including several other organizations who had asked to
learn from the workshop. The Oguaa library at the Center was dedicated
and named for Judy McPherson who with deep appreciation for the honor,
pledged to help it grow and expand to other sites, noting Ghana had
also introduced an innovative mobile library activity some years
ago.
OCTOBER 2014:
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GLOBAL PEACE GAMES for CHILDREN
and YOUTH are still open for registrations but events
must be completed by November 30 to be included in the 2014 Report and
Certificate. To date 34 Countries are represented across 6 continents
with thousands of participants.
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EBOLA PREVENTION
PSNI pays special tribute to FODEDE, (Football To
Develop Destitute Liberia) for its participation in the 2014 Global
Peace Games and its YouTube recording of the event which was dedicated
to the prevention of Ebola
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BEYOND SPORT
SUMMIT: PLAY for FUN, LEARN for LIFE South
Africa represented the PSNI Network at the Beyond Sport Summit in Johannesburg In October.
Themba Dan Chauke, the organization's Program Director, is also
nominated for the Beyond Sport "Faces of the Future"
campaign to highlight young sport for development leaders.
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CAMERA VOICES GLASGOW
EXHIBIT of Photography from Scotland and Africa will feature
Claire Foottit's photographs of PLAY SOCCER Malawi. It will run from
November 25, 2014, to May 22, 2015 at the Scottish Football Museum.
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PLAY SOCCER
CAMEROON, with its partner, UNITED ACTION for CHILDREN,
opened two new program sites in late September, one in Buea and the
second in Mamfe at the UAC Football for Hope Centre.
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TRENTON, NEW
JERSEY is the site of a new USA program in collaboration
with 4 partners who will host the program and provide facilities: The
Trenton YMCA, the Trenton Catholic Youth Organization, Urban Promise
Trenton and Living Hope Empowerment Center.
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NEW PARTNERSHIP:
PSNI is partnering with Princeton University’s Center for Health and
Wellbeing and Rabin Martin, a global health strategy firm, to improve
the impact assessment methods for the program.
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LATTITUDE INTERNATIONAL
VOLUNTEERS who work alongside program staff in PLAY
SOCCER Ghana deserve special recognition and appreciation. In October
Lattitude helped facilitate a full scholarship education award to a 14
year old PLAY SOCCER Ghana program participant, enabling him to attend
full time through secondary studies.
AWARDS:
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MALAWI TROPHY:
Patrick Kulemeka, PLAY SOCCER Malawi Program Director,
was awarded the International Olympic Committee 2011 trophy for Sport
and Social Responsibility on June 25 at Thyolo Stadium on the Olympic
Day celebration. Patrick's name was nominated by the Malawi Olympic
committee because of his commitment to promote the IOC objectives, and
his outstanding contribution to development through sport through his
work with children and youth.
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PLAY SOCCER AWARDED TROPHY AT
GLOBAL SPORTS FORUM BARCELONA: On March 9, 2010,
PLAY SOCCER Non Profit International (PSNI) was awarded
the 2010 Trophy for "Sport and Education" at the second
Global Sports Forum in Barcelona. The Trophy for Sport and
Education honored PLAY SOCCER's 10-year old "Play for Fun, Learn
for Life" program as "the sports initiative that has best
promoted the values of citizenship education, training and vocational
integration through sport."
READ MORE: Press Release
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PLAY SOCCER AWARDED "SPORTS NGO
FOR PEACE OF THE YEAR": PLAY SOCCER Non Profit
International was awarded the prestigious "Sports NGO for Peace of
the Year" at the 3rd Annual Peace and Sport International Forum in
Monaco, in the presence of H.S.H Prince Albert II and more than 400
decision-makers from 85 nations, representing sport, politics, business
and civil society
READ MORE: Press Release
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PLAY SOCCER SHORTLISTED FOR 2009
UNICEF CHILDREN’S
RIGHTS AWARD: The PLAY SOCCER Network was
one of four finalists
for the 2009 UNICEF Children’s Rights
Award. The award was
granted by Beyond Sport, a new global
initiative to unite and promote
the world’s most innovative projects for change. PLAY
SOCCER
benefited from participation at the July 7-9 Beyond Sport
Summit in
London, an opportunity to network with media,
corporations,
organizations, and individuals who support our
achievements.
MORE at www.beyondsport.org
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US DEPARTMENT OF STATE AWARDS
GRANT TO OHIO UNIVERSITY & PLAY SOCCER
PARTNERSHIP: The US Department of State
has awarded a three-year grant of $225,000 to support
a partnership between Ohio University and PLAY SOCCER
that furthers cultural interaction and
education through sport in underserved areas in the US,
Senegal, Ghana and South Africa. The grant,
issued by the Sports United Office, will fund a holistic
training program for youth sport coaches that
teaches the crucial link between sport and health. The
PLAY SOCCER- Ohio University partnership
kicks off in December at PLAY SOCCER South Africa, where
a Ohio U’s expert coaches will deliver
clinics, training and field sessions. PLAY SOCCER’s
country programs in Ghana and Senegal will
benefit from visits in 2010 and 2011. In exchange,
during summer 2010 and 2011, PLAY SOCCER
youth coaches from South Africa, Ghana, and Senegal will
travel to the US to participate in Ohio
University’s “Kids On Campus,” an enrichment program for
children in the surrounding Appalachian
communities.
READ MORE: Press Release
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