Sport for Development and Peace Building

Promoting Health and Preventing Disease

• Prevents and manages chronic disease
• Prevents and manages infectious disease
• Enhances mental health
• Reduces direct and indirect health care costs

Enhancing the inclusion and well-being of person with disabilities

• Reduces stigma
• Enhances socialization
• Enables independence and participation
• Contributes to empowerment
• Fosters greater inclusion

Enhancing Social Inclusion, Preventing Conflict, and Building Peace

• Promotes social inclusion
• Provides respite in periods of conflict
• Builds trust and establishes bridges between groups in conflict
• Builds peace in a post-conflict situation
• Promotes a culture of peace

TEA Peace Building, Cohesion & Reconciliation Program Activities

TEA uses the power of Sport to educate and empower students to overcome the effects of poverty, conflict, and disease in disadvantaged communities. TEA’s educational sport games engage students to participate in its programs through the Reflect-Connect-Apply approach. This approach encourages students to examine their experiences, relate those experiences to what they already know, and apply that learning to their daily lives.

TEA’s programs focus on creating positive, sustainable change in three areas:

Enhancing Education Quality;

TEA uses sport as a primary teaching tool to engage students and improve learning outcomes. TEA Education program trains teachers and community leaders as Coaches to deliver sport-based educational programs before, during, and after classes on a weekly basis. Teachers integrate not only the methodology, but also the core principles of sport into the classroom, such as inclusion and child protection. In addition to modeling inclusive attitudes and practices related to girls or marginalized groups, the use of collaborative learning activities encourages children to work together, breaking down exclusionary attitudes and behaviors over time.

Transforming Health Practices;

This program fosters the health and well-being of children and youth by equipping students with the knowledge and skills they need for positive behavior change related to HIV and AIDS, malaria, sexual and reproductive health, and water and sanitation health.

Building Peaceful Communities;

TEA’s sports programs foster increases in acceptance, peer support, and integration amongst groups that are highly marginalized or that were previously in conflict by encouraging diverse children and youth to join together through peace-building activities while enhancing their ability to prevent and resolve conflict in their lives. By participating together in safe, fun activities and discussing the values and importance of peaceful thoughts and behaviors, children and youth begin to challenge the negative perceptions and attitudes that can sometimes exist between other marginalized or divergent groups.