Africa: Commonwealth Youth Initiative Backs Sport for Development and Peace

press release

Governments, intergovernmental organisations and NGOs across the globe are being urged to get behind a Commonwealth youth-led initiative to promote sport as a tool for national development and conflict prevention. The call from the newly established Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace working group, or CYSDP, comes on the occasion of the first ever International Day of Sport for Development and Peace: 6 April 2014.

Clare Barrell, chair of CYSDP and representative for UK Sport, said: "Today is an important day to recognise not only the strides made by organisations in advocating for SDP [sport for development and peace] and demonstrating its role as a vehicle for development, but the young people who work tirelessly as coaches, peer leaders, volunteers and facilitators.

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