Red Deporte y Cooperación - Red Deporte y Cooperación: ONGD para la integración social de paises en vías de desarrollo a través del Deporte y la Educación Física. Resumen de noticias, actuaciones y proyectos

Sport and education as a way out of violence in El Salvador

Our aid worker Max Besnard has been working in El Salvador for the last few months. Together with Antolin Pulido, he works at the Red Deporte project in the capital San Salvador supporting our counterpart, the Salesians of Poligono Industrial Don Bosco, located at Comunidad Iberia, one of the poorest neighborhoods struck by the violence of youth... AMPLIAR

Seydu, the master-of-recycling musician

´´Kids in my country have to make their own toys, since their parents have no money to buy them´´ says Seydu, a musician from Sierra Leone. He is talking in front of a crowd of one hundred pupils at an elementary school in San Sebastián de los Reyes, one of Madrid’s northern satellite towns. He is leading a workshop on African music. ´´My... AMPLIAR

Tonj (Sudan). Basketball and something else

Alex Deng has just left his classroom and he sits under the shade of an acacia tree together with Jane, his sister. Both of them are going through the notes they have been taking on an exercise book that Alex always keeps in his shoulder bag. It is 11:30 am and with the sun at its zenith the dry and hot air gives a signal that at 40C degrees the... AMPLIAR

September 8. World Literacy Day

Literacy means to open the door to a world of opportunities to many people who have never had a chance of access to education. To create awareness about this issue, every year the World Literacy Day is celebrated on September 8. Some of the projects we have supported from Red Deporte in African and Latin American countries include a component of... AMPLIAR

"In sports you see people as they really are". James Kallusky

“In a classroom we only see the tip of the iceberg of who kids are, but in sports you can see what lies underneath, who they really are: their true qualities, and even their aspirations and their fears.” This is how James Kallusky summarizes his two decades as an educator in difficult environments. Both as university professor and... AMPLIAR

Tonj (Sudan). Basketball and something else

Alex Deng has just left his classroom and he sits under the shade of an acacia tree together with Jane, his sister. Both of them are going through the notes they have been taking on an exercise book that Alex always keeps in his shoulder bag. It is 11:30 am and with the sun at its zenith the dry and hot air gives a signal that at 40C degrees the... AMPLIAR

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