Why is sport important?

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Why is sport important?
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Sport teaches us important values
Sport brings people together
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Respect
Friendship
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Collaboration
Working together
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Honesty
Fair play
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Sport can help to build peace
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Sport also helps people have FUN!
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I like going to the UHAI club to meet with
friends and play football. I dont have any
other place to play with friends like this.
Kelvin
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Working together
Honesty
Respect
Fair play
Collaboration
How can we live out the values in our own lives?
Friendship
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Loving God, Thank you for people all around the
world who are working hard to build peace. Let
us remember to act in friendship with others and
be respectful and honest. Help us to work
together with our sisters and brothers around the
world to build a peaceful and fair world. Amen
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As a real instrument of reconciliation, sport
brings people together
the ideals of fair play, honesty, friendship,
collaboration and mutual respect are the building
blocks of a new civilisation of peace. (Pope
John Paul II, 2000)
Picture credits Riccardo Gangale, Ian Vale,
Thomas Omondi, Simon Rawles, MeyMey and
Butterfly, Sarah Smith Pearce, White Rose and Red
Flower, Sheep.