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Despite the improved political situation in the Gaza Strip, serious problems remain. Children and teenagers only spend 4 hours a day at school, and have only limited opportunities to take part in sport or cultural activities. As a result, children spend their spare time either at home or hanging about on the streets. Inactivity and aggression are a constant reality for the youth of Gaza after 26 years of occupation and seven years of Intifada (uprising).

TSRT aims to improve the situation by increasing access to sports facilities. In the populated areas, in co-ordination with the Palestinian municipalities, we aim to:

• establish open playgrounds with universal accessibility in Gaza, Deir El Balah, El Quarara, Nusseirat and Rafah.
• train municipal sports educators to be able to organise the different games and activities in the playgrounds.
• allocate basic sports equipment (balls, nets, goal posts).

In the existing sports clubs, we propose to provide, with professional expatriate trainers, training for the coaches in the most practised sports (collective and contact sports), and to allocate basic sports equipment.

In order to improve sports activities for girls, we want to provide:

• supplementary training for the girls' sports teachers.
• complimentary training of the "sports facilitators" set up in the schools by UNRWA.
• training of female coaches for women's sports activities in sports clubs.
• distribution of equipment for 2 sports halls (in Gaza and Khan Yunis): primarily for use by women and children.

Location

Gaza Strip, Palestine

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Objectives

To offer young people living on the Gaza Strip the opportunity to practice sports, by

• increasing availability of sports facilities
• offering help to existing sports clubs
• improving access to sports activities for girls and young women

Remarks

The permanent equipment (goal posts, floodlights, concrete slabs) will be manufactured by local companies. The sports equipment (volleyballs, footballs, nets...) will be purchased in the Gaza Strip.

Partners

• Palestinian Ministries of Education and Youth and Sports
• Municipalities and sports clubs of the Gaza Strip
• UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency)

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Wally DIALLO