Youth Development Through Sport
This project's parent organization is Kampuchea Balopp
It operates in Cambodia
It uses Rugby Union
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about Youth Development Through Sport
Kampuchea Balopp gives disadvantaged and disabled children access to sport and is currently working with 15 different partner NGO’s, 3 schools and over six hundred and fifty children in Cambodia.
The children range in ages from five years old up to late-teens. A training schedule is designed depending on the age of the children, their school schedule, and their specific needs. Boys and girls are mixed together to lesser gender divide and make them work together.
To ensure that the different organisations mix together, Kampuchea Balopp has regular ‘Grassroots Rugby Days’ which involve all of the partner organisations participating, and having the children divided into groups specifically so that the children are mixed together and have to get to know the children from the other organisations. This breaks down barriers and widens their knowledge about who else is learning rugby, plus it enables them to make friends and have a fun day out.
We are constantly working on new partnerships and projects including launching a partner nutrition program with UNICEF in 2015, working with a French documentary crew who have finalized a web documentary on the work we do in Cambodia etc