Sport4Youth
This project's parent organization is Sport Sans Frontieres
It operates in Serbia
It uses Multiple sports
Entered the Sport for Conflict Resolution Award
More about Sport4Youth
The Sport4Youth project is directed to Kosovo’s youth and aims at reducing discrimination by providing spaces and opportunities that bring together ethnic communities through sport, physical activities and games. Sport Sans Frontieres is acting as a facilitator of dialogue. Perceived as a neutral organisation, SSF reaches the different communities and involves them into interethnic activities: multi-ethnic trainings on sport animation for the youngsters and multi-ethnic sport events for the children. This is particularly important as inter-ethnic tensions are persisting.
Despite the adoption of an ambitious framework to guarantee the rights of the different communities, the occasions are still too rare for the youth from the different communities to meet and to exchange, especially in the countryside. Consequently, they tend to remain imprisoned in old stereotypes and prejudices. For an inclusive and tolerant Kosovo, youth and children are the ones to focus on: Kosovo has one of the youngest populations in Europe. Youth are particularly vulnerable and commonly victims of economic hardship, social exclusion and gender discrimination, especially if they come from ethnic minority groups that are more and more isolated.