The Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace Working Group (CYSDP) has grown tremendously within the past year, adding a number of new team members from across the multicultural Commonwealth. While you may be aware of the CYSDP’s mission and vision, it’s important to know who our members are. Every month we’ll introduce a CYSDP member …
The Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace Working Group (CYSDP) has grown tremendously within the past year, adding a number of new team members from across the multicultural Commonwealth. While you may be aware of the CYSDP’s mission and vision, it’s important to know who our members are. Every month we’ll introduce a CYSDP member …
The Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace Working Group (CYSDP) has grown tremendously within the past year, adding a number of new team members from across the multicultural Commonwealth. While you may be aware of the CYSDP’s mission and vision, it’s important to know who our members are. Every month we’ll introduce a CYSDP member …
Sport possesses unique attributes that act as a global communication platform. It has the ability to connect people and communities around the world, and to tackle multiple social and economic challenges. Around the world, sport represents a significant source of potential for enhancing and even accelerating development and peace efforts, particularly those related to achieving …
Tragedy cost Pakistan the opportunity to host international cricket, but Summaya Afaq, 24, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Karachi, Pakistan, describes a home-grown league that is drawing fans. As the early March day in 2009 approached, the Sri Lankan team left a five-star hotel for the Gaddafi Stadium to play the third day of the second …
WIth closing ceremonies fresh in memory and Olympians around the world returning home from the Rio 2016 games, Kevin Tan, 20, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Singapore, describes the inspiration evoked by Singapore’s first gold medallist. History has been made in Singapore’s sporting history, as 21-year-old Joseph Schooling has won the Republic’s first Olympic gold medal. …
Sports offers a means of addressing Nigeria’s social and development challenges, writes Olajide Salawu, 23, a Correspondent from Shao-Ilorin in Nigeria, who looks at unity that followed 1996 Olympic gold as a model for ways to create peace and build opportunity. In a geographical entity with various ethnic groups such as Nigeria, challenges for individual and national …
As he approaches the end of his teen years, Oghenekevwe Oghenechovwen, 18, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Warri in Nigeria, looks at the role and impact of sports, and reflects on changes being made to the way they are being organised and promoted. When it comes to sports, neither do I have a natural affinity for them …
The Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace working group (CYSDP) is calling for outstanding young leaders, passionate about, and with expertise, in the field of sport for development and peace (SDP), to support its #Sport4DevelopmentNG advocacy Campaign in Nigeria as Organizing Partner and Campus Ambassador. The #Sport4DevelopmentNG advocacy Campaign aims at promoting the instrumentality …
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The Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace Network (CYSDP) is set to launch the #Sport4DevelopmentNG Campaign in Nigeria. This was made known in a Statement issued by the CYSDP Africa Regional Representative, John Oluwadero. The #Sport4DevelopmentNG social media campaign is scheduled to commence on Monday March 27, 2017 and will end on Saturday …
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