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Peace and Sport launches campaign for Haiti
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Neutral and apolitical international initiative Peace and Sport yesterday launched a campaign to support Haitian youth at the request of the Haitian Olympic Committee.
UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) asked the Haitian Olympic Committee to help them introduce a structured living environment in ‘survivor camps’, with the help of sport. Around 100,000 children and adolescents aged between eight and 20 now live in 'survivor camps' in Haiti, left to their own resources after the tragedy that hit the island on January 12. The Haitian Olympic Committee plans two programmes: ‘Camps for the Future’, which will supervise 50,000 young people through daily socio-educational sports activities, and ‘Dignity for Women and Girls in Displaced Persons Camps’, a programme to combat violence and discrimination against young women through sports and educational activities. The International Chess Federation and the International Table Tennis Federation, both partners of Peace and Sport, have already pledged their support. Peace and Sport is based in the Principality of Monaco under the patronage of Prince Albert II. The movement puts sport and its structuring values at the heart of development projects led within communities in crisis around the world. |
