Trafigura Foundation

PACES, Palestine

Promoting Sports Among Youth

Since June 2006, The Palestinian Association for Children's Encouragement of Sports (PACES) works at developing sports programmes to Palestinian boys and girls, aged 8-16, thus offering them constructive and healthy activities which are uneasy to find elsewhere in the country. By doing this, PACES contributes to get the children out of idleness in the streets where they can easily be caught in the prevailing regional violence, to provide them with educational support and to transmit a number of values essential for their future lives.

The social status of the girls is also highly impacted through PACES' undiscriminating gender approach. To date, it is more than 5,700 children in some 57 cities all over Palestine who benefit from PACES sport programmes and activities.

Thanks to the Trafigura Foundation support in 2008, PACES has been able to send a group of 30 young girls and boys to international youth sport tournaments in Italy and Norway, under the supervision of 10 adult coaches. The Foundation has also granted funds for one month of coaching in Palestine.

In 2009, a new donation has been allocated to their coaching programme and for allowing them to send several teams to the International Youth Tournament in Norway, during the summer 2009.

The Board agreed to a continued support until 2012.

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