Seminar on UN Day of Sports for Development and Peace: When the children play, the world wins!
2014-04-08
To mark United Nations’ International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on April 6, students, young players, sports enthusiasts and development activist shared quality time to discuss ways to confront challenges facing today’s Pakistani youth.Iqbal Jatoi presented an overview of Right to Plays’ movement in Pakistan. His teams are engaged in sports for development projects in over a dozen districts of KP and Sindh, while attending to some 170,000 children on a regular basis through structured play-based activities with educational outcomes.
Wilfried Lemke, UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace for RTP Pakistan, said, “I challenge everyone to look for those with limited or no access to sport and try to remove the barriers that stand in the way of their participation”.Learn more hereprint view
