Title: Projects and activities in the world and in Italy
1Peace Games Uisp
- Projects and activities in the world and in Italy
Peace Games
World overview
Running projects
Work in progress
Italy
Europe
www.peacegamesuisp.org
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Running
Work in progress
3What is Peace Games
- Peace Games is the Non governmental organization
created by Uisp in 1990 to promote and support
humanitarian aid and cooperation for development
actions, that local committees and sport leagues
realize in the South countries and East Europe. - Peace Games mission is to valorise sport
potentiality as instrument of growth and
aggregation in development society. Projects
propose sport as communication vehicle and
cohabitation in lands afflicted by wars or as
instrument to support educational projects in
developing countries. In this sense it addresses
to traditionally weakest sectors of population,
as children, disables or elderly, but overall to
youth as receptive subjects able to multiply and
transmit positive messages. - In collaboration with local partners Peace Games
work on training of local operators, on
animation, on restructuration and settlement of
recreational and sport spaces and social
aggregative centres. In emergency situations it
also works on rehabilitation of structures and
buildings and with distribution of relief goods. - Peace Games organizes in Italy training courses
for operators, with generic skills on social
discomfort and in particular on the use of sport
methodologies to promote Peace. Beneficiaries are
educators and sport, social and cultural
operators,
4Where is Peace Games
Bologna Headquarter Via Riva Reno, 75/III -
40121 BolognaTel. 051/228390 - Fax
051/225203Presidencyemail presidenza_at_peacegames
uisp.orgPresident Daniele BorghiEducation for
Development email eas_at_peacegamesuisp.org
Responsible Ivan LisantiTerritory
relationshipemail territorio_at_peacegamesuisp.org
Responsible Carlo Balestri
Rome HeadquarterLargo Nino Franchellucci, 73
-00155 RomaFax 06/43984320Project OfficeTel.
06/43984326-27email progetti_at_peacegamesuisp.org
Responsible Livia DusattiAdministrationTel.
06/43984348 email amministrazione_at_peacegamesuisp
.orgResponsible Gian Nicola Acinapura
Florence HeadquarterVia F.Bocchi, 32 - 50126
FirenzeTel. 055/6583501 - Fax
055/685064Trainingemail formazione_at_peacegamesui
sp.orgResponsible Maria Grazia Pugliese
Genoa HeadquarterPiazza Campetto, 7/13-14 -
16123 GenovaTel. 010/2471463 - Fax.
010/2470482Immigrationemail immigrazione_at_peaceg
amesuisp.orgResponsible Fabrizio De Meo
5Local working points
FerraraVia Verga, 4 - 44100 FerraraTel.
0532/907611 - Fax. 0532/907601email
ferrara_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference Manuela
Claysset GenovaPiazza Campetto, 7/13-14 - 16123
GenovaTel. 010/2471463 - Fax.
010/2470482email genova_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefer
ence Fabrizio De MeoLivornoVia Paretti, 8 -
57122 LivornoTel. 0586/887433 -
Fax.0586/894332email livorno_at_peacegamesuisp.org
Reference Michele Barzagli MilanoVia Adige, 11
- 20135 MilanoTel. 02/55017755-990 - Fax
02/55181126email milano_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefer
ence Antonio Iannetta ModenaVia IV Novembre,
40/H - 41100 ModenaTel. 059/348811 - Fax
059/348810email modena_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefere
nce Michele Marzullo
CampaniaCorso Umberto I, 381 - 80138 NapoliTel.
081/6330691 - Tel. Fax
081/268137email campania_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefe
rence Carmen MaddaloniEmilia RomagnaVia Riva
Reno, 75/3Â - 40121 BolognaTel.
051/225881 - Fax 051/225203email
emiliaromagna_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference
Silvia Della CasaFriuli Venezia GiuliaVia
Nazionale 92/5 - 33040 Pradamano (Ud)Tel.
0432/640154 Fax 0432/641853email
fvg_at_peacegamesuisp.org Reference Giulia
StaculMarchePiazza Salvo D'Acquisto, 29 -
60129 AnconaTel. Fax 071/2900059email
marche_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference Tatiana
OlivieriPugliaVia Mauro Amoruso, 2 - 70124
BariTel. Fax 080/5235716email
puglia_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference Vincenzo
Liaci
BiellaVia De Marchi, 3 - 13900 BiellaTel. Fax
015/33349email biella_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReferen
ce Ermanno PizzoglioBolognaVia
dell'Industria, 20 - 40138 BolognaTel.
051/6013511 - Fax. 051/6013511email
bologna_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference Fabio
CasadioCatanzaroVia Grimaldi, 19 - 88100
CatanzaroTel. 0961/751944 - Fax.
0961/752938email catanzaro_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRe
ference Riccardo EliaCiriè Settimo
ChivassoVia Petrarca, 20 - 10036 Settimo
Torinese (TO)Tel. Fax 011/8006822email
settimocirie_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference
Roberto RinaldiCremonaVia Brescia, 56 - 26100
CremonaTel. 0372/431771 - Fax
0372/436660email cremona_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefe
rence Goffredo Iacchetti
6Local working points
ParmaVia Testi, 2 - 43100 ParmaTel. 0521/707411
- Fax 0521/707420email parma_at_peacegamesuisp.org
Reference Enrica MontaniniPisaVia Bonaini, 4
- 56125 PisaTel. 050/503066 - Fax
050/20001email pisa_at_peacegamesuip.orgReference
Elisa BaniPistoiaVia Bastione Mediceo, 80 -
51100 PistoiaTel. 0573/23082 - Fax
0573/22208email pistoia_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefer
ence Fiorella LuchiReggio EmiliaVia
Tamburini, 5 - 42100 Reggio EmiliaTel.
0522/267211 - Fax 0522/332782email
reggioemilia_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference
Giorgio Gollini
RiminiVia De Warthema, 2 - 47900 RiminiTel.
0541/772917 - Fax 0541/791144email
rimini_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference Pier Paolo
Pari TorinoVia Canova 8 - 10126 TorinoTel.
011/677115 - Fax 011/673694email
torino_at_peacegamesuisp.orgReference Paola
Crova VaresePiazza De Salvo (ang. Via
Lombardi) - 21100 VareseTel. Fax
0332/813001email varese_at_peacegamesuisp.orgRefer
ence Alessandra Pessina
BrasileColetivo Quan AnRua Acu, 572, Sala 01
TirolCEP. 59020-110, Natal/RN - BrasileTel.
Fax 0055 84 36112936emailbrasile_at_peacegamesuisp
.orgReference Antonino Condorelli
7Networks
- Peace Games joins in
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- ICS Italian Consortium of Solidarity
- COCIS Co-ordination of non governmental
organizations for international cooperation for
development. - ASSEMBLEA ONG Associations of Italian Ngo
- LIBERA Associations, names and numbers against
the maphia - LUDOMIR Playroom of populations and cultures of
Adriatic sea and Balkans
8Running projects
- Palestine Il diritto di giocare in pace (the
right to play in peace) - Bosnia Giochi in rete (Games in net)
- Brazil Juventud diritti in rete (Rights in
net) Casa Lares - Mexico/Chiapas Il fiorire delle nostre radici
(The flowering of our roots) - Lebanon Programma giovani Beirut Sud (Youth
program South Beirut) - Arab Democratic Republic of Saharawi Gioco Sport
(Game sport) - - Activities in Italy
9Work in progress
- Bosnia
- Mozambico
- Palestina
- Repubblica Araba Saharawi Democratica
- Senegal
- Europa
10Italy
Running
Work in progress
- Since 2000 Peace Games organizes training courses
to give general skills on social discomfort, with
the objective to teach to use game and sport to
spread a culture of peace and solidarity.
Beneficiaries are educators, sport, social and
cultural operators, teachers working with
children and young people that need concrete work
instruments to organize and manage laboratories
on these themes. Peace Games also realizes
training courses on writing, evaluation and
financial reports. - Peace Games is active on national territory with
education for development projects to promote
peace culture inside civil society and schools,
with activities aiming to know problems of
developing countries and migrants people. - Periodic organization of photographic expositions
and meeting with schools and associations to tell
about peace Games activities around the world,
particularly in Chiapas. - Peace Games participates to the projects
Cooperation activities, an online database
where collecting all projects of Cocis ngos.
11Europe
Running
Work in progress
- The trafficking of young sportsmen, overall
football players towards the Europe, is the theme
of two projects presented together with Uisp on
European grants Daphne and Fundamental rights
and citizenship. - Young athletes are attired in Europe by
self-styled managers promising to become
champions, but just a few of them can enter in
professional sport. Most of them, after one year
in a more or less prestigious club, are left
alone, often in an illegal condition, with debts
to pay for the travel in Europe, risking to fall
in the criminality net. - The projects foresee a deep research on the
phenomenon (still submerged) and a linked
campaign of awarenessfor sport world, civil
society and mass media.
12Brazil
Running
Work in progress
- Juventud rights in net Rio Grande do Norte
state - This project foresees the creation of a
structured net among associations and Ngos
attending the project table of Tuscany region on
Latin America (Women, youth and minorities),
the Latin American associations usually partners
of above mentioned ngos, and some local bodies,
associations and cooperatives from Tuscany. - Juventud involves Brazil, Guatemala and Peru,
in particular Peace Games will work in Brazil
thanks to the partnership with Coletivo Quan-An. - The aim of the net is to define a strategy able
to work as reference system for action supporting
right safeguarding and decent life of childdren
and teens in the three Latin American countries. - The project wants to apply an innovative
methodology, to give voice to each member of the
net and individuate together, thanks to a
participated path, both needs of local population
and objectives having to feature the future
working strategy for next years. - Casa Lares- Paranà state
- Cascavel is a town placed in the South Ovest of
Paranà state, area particularly involved in
economic crisis of the country. There are 250
thousand people living in urban and rural area,
with a very young average 42 is lower 20 years
old. Adults, overall rural ones, generally
havent professional specialization, and dont
gain enough money to support of the family. This
is the cause of a large school abandon in
teenagers, and they risk to became parte of drug
traffic, prostitution system and general
delinquency. Gouvernative programs to support
minors dont consider the situation of the
territory, so they are inapplicable. - Since many times Peace Games supports Casas
Lares, project cared by father Luis Alberto
Solis, a Chilean priest living in Cascavel, that
work on rescue of minors considered not
recoverable from drug addiction, using
connection where it is possible with
families, district associations and local
organizations. Focal points of the project are
professionalization of youth and improvement of
physical condition, to develop self knowledge and
a positive behavior of cooperation with the
others.
13Mexico
Running
Work in progress
- The flowering of our roots Chiapas
- Chiapas is a region of Mexico counting 5 millions
people, most indigenous. The main town is
Cascavel, and is where Peace Games works. - Main problems in the area are the lack in
infrastuctures and in social health services, so
the project aims to help structures caring basic
education of children and to improve professional
skills of girls and women, also thanks to
autonomous municipality Francisco Gomez del
Caracol della Garrucha. - In particular Peace Games projects are addressed
to children and women of sevaral indigenous
communities. - Main activities
- aid of children of whole indigenous communities
in education, wardrobe, health and food
emergencies - building of school rooms and buying of didactic
material - building of a basket pitch to offer a space
where sport becomes an aggregative and self
development instrument - production by local population of Educative
dolls on birth, sold in Italy for the salary of
workers - training courses for women on use of medical
plants - support of women handcraft with selling of
products in Italy and in Chiapas - didactic consultancy.
14Repubblica Araba Saharawi Democratica
Running
Work in progress
Game Sport refugees camp of Smara (Algerian
land) This project will be a clear example of
field collaboration among Peace Games and Uisp
committees and Leagues. Born from an idea of
Athletics and developed by Peace Games, started
with a pilot mission attended by Uisp Pesaro,
realized thanks to funding of Catanzaro
municipality with the collaboration of local
Uisp. Day by day many Uisp interested in the area
(as Traditional Game League and Emilia Romagna
committees) and made a Uisp net for Saharawi
population. The Uisp Peace Games net is now
preparing an annual project, together with
Italian association El-Ouali and Sahara Marathon.
The idea of a sport action born from the needs
expressed by local population concerning young
generation. Saharawi, native of Western Sahara
(nation half appearing on the ocean) live in
forced exile since thirty years, mainly because
of the long war against Morocco, in a desert zone
made by stone and sand, Hammada, in big refugees
camps in Algerian lands where are living 250.000
people. Education and instruction of youth is
central in Saharawi community, but the forced
isolation and the lack in productive activities,
due to the state of territory, is creating a
frustration in people born in the camps, and this
is the cause of social discomfort, as apathy, l
aggressiveness and learning difficulty. In this
landscape sport can run as aggregative factor, of
aggressiveness sublimation and stimulus for self
rediscovering and own ambitions. The aim of the
project is to train local sport operators bout
sport used as instrument of prevention of social
discomfort and, after, to create a steady
aggregative center where to practice permanent
and organized sport activities, followed by
operators trained on sport as educative
instrument.
15Senegal
Running
Work in progress
- Peace Games and Uisp are working on a consortium
project with other Italian and Senegalese Ngos
active on the territory, with whom they started a
path thanks to the zero edition of cycle tour
Dakar-Bamako The silent tour of solidarity that
Uisp organized at the beginning of 2009. - The tour, that during next edition will go also
in Mali, ran in the surrounding of Dakar, and
permitted to know international cooperation
activities in that area of Senegal.
16Lebanon
Running
Work in progress
- Youth program Beirut South Beirut
- Lebanon is a country where for a long time
cohabited, with alternate results, religions and
different cultures. - In the territories mostly struck by the so many
wars as the south outskirts in Beirut (Dahiye),
the social tensions are stronger. The Dahiye
includes eight municipalities among which some,
the shite ones, particularly struck by the
Israeli bombardments in the war of the 34 days of
July-August 2006, and already proved, because the
area, that had been one of the principal
sceneries of the 1975-1991 civil war fights, has
not had access to the government funds for the
reconstruction. - The project, financed by the line "Art Gold" of
the Program of Development of the United Nations
(UNDP), and develops together with the Tuscan net
of solidarity for Lebanon, composed from numerous
ngos and local bodies, have individualized as
target the juvenile population of the communities
of Furn esh-Shebbak, Chiah and al-Hadath, in
which the social problem of division are
subsequently exacerbated by an urban structure
that doesn't favor the meeting among the
different communities and where the few existing
structures are to private, that is to payment, or
religious. The project precedes to work together
with organizations, universities and local
institutions to strengthen the juvenile politics
of the three municipalities, to develop a common
and long-term strategy to face the juvenile
problem and to increase the abilities of the
social workers and the animators of the among
municipality. - The field of activity of Peace Games is the
education, particularly the education of young
people and children through the sporting
activities, and the intervention will realize
through a professional formation of sporting
operators and teachers of physical education on
the practice of the sport as instrument of
education and aggregation, the following
methodological accompaniment to the formed
operators and the realization of sporting
activity organized in constant and continuous
way.
17Palestine
Running
Work in progress
- The right to play in peace Shufat refugees
camp (East Jerusalem) - Since the 2004 Peace Games operates in the
refugees camp of Shu'fat, situated few minutes
far from East Jerusalem, built in 1967 by the
Israeli authority for the installation of
Palestinian families expelled from the Old City.
In the years the population is grown and it is in
continuous increase, today it is calculated that
the inhabitants are over 24.000 even if it misses
an up-to-date census. On the other hand the
position of the Camp, closed among the Israeli
installations, prevents the extension and the
overcrowding, constitutes one of the principal
problems of life quality, because of the
disarrangements of the territory (overlapped
unauthorized constructions, insufficiency of the
sewers and of the disbursement of energy and
water...), that cause the progressive alteration
of the already difficult social equilibriums of
the area. The Camp is isolated by now from the
metropolitan area in Jerusalem from the Wall of
separation almost completed and from a military
check-point, that make difficult the circulation
of people and commodities, the access to the
places of employment and the scholastic
structures, that for many people are out of the
confinements. - The military occupation and the progressive
closing of the Camp are bringing the population
to unbearable conditions of life. The material
impoverishment, the isolation and the continuous
humiliations which the families are submitted,
traditionally conduct to a progressive breakup of
the social relationships and the tied up values
to the family roles. Of all this they suffer
indeed children unarmed subjects that don't find
defense against the alteration of their
certainties in the adults. The boys live closed
in the narrow and poor space of resources of the
Camp, deprived of the stimuli and of the
necessary educational supports to their personal
growth and of relationship. Aggressiveness is the
main instrument to conduct the social and family
relationships of children and young people. They
grow the phenomenons of degrade and crime, due to
the poverty, to the stress and the use and shop
of drugs.
18Palestina
Running
Work in progress
- The basement of Peace Games project is the
Educational Center Al-Zuhur, through which is
wanted to offer to children, to the boys and the
women of the Camp an advanced place of
aggregation under the educational profile, and
adequately equipped. It started handling the most
impelling needs for the operation of the Center
the restructuring of the building, the supply of
equipments and materials, a first turned
formative cycle to the staff of the local
educators. From a small deprived kindergarten of
means and methodological continuity, it became a
polyvalent center that has earned in the time the
trust of the local community as educational place
of excellence a Kindergarten for 80 children, a
social Service of assistance to the families, a
center of promotion of the woman, the
sporting-cultural Club for boys from the 6 a 14
years. The staff of the Center is formed in Italy
thanks to the share of the Consortium of communes
of the province in Bologna Terre dAcqua", and
on the spot thanks to the job of the operators of
Peace Games Uisp. - The projects are co-financed by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, from the Region Emilia Romagna,
from the Province of Bologna and from private
donations.
Work in progress Peace Games presented to Friuli
Venezia Giulia region a project for the support
of sporting activities of educational center
Al-Zuhur, called The time to play. It is in
elaboration phases a project to present to
European Commission of income production in
Shufat camp and neighborhood. It is foreseen to
create training courses for women to teach
handcraft. It is in elaboration phases a
consortium project of street animation in the
area of Gaza streep.
19Bosnia
Running
Work in progress
- Games in net - Mostar, Sarajevo, Banja Luka,
Zenica, Srebrenica, Konyic e Zavidovici - The Bosnian society is lacerated by a conflict
resolved only on the paper, where the economic
and social problems that have given origin to the
hostilities remain. It appears fundamental that
children and the young people repurchase the
ability to live and to interact, beyond the
ethnic divisions, to build the future of
essential cohabitation for the believable
development of that society. - Since 1994 Uisp Per Adotta la Pace and Peace
Games gives life to interventions for children,
young people and elderly ones of the
Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the objective to favor
the reconstruction of the social fabric and the
reconciliation among the different ethnic groups
using the game as instrument to promote the
sociality, the relationships among children and
between children and adults. The principal
actions are the qualification and the equipment
of recreational and aggregative spaces, with a
particular attention to the qualification of the
busy partner-cultural operators in the activities
with the young persons, that are periodically
formed on the spot and in Italy. - GiroGiroGioco is the title of the long
intervention with which the winning experience of
the ludobuses is initiated, ludobuses are small
van prepared to mobile playrooms able to reach
children and the boys of the rural areas or urban
outskirtses, where greater it is the lack of
resources, the marginalization and the social
uneasiness. Game in net, the actual project,
constitutes the geographical and methodological
amplification of it thanks to the collaboration
with the Ngos Nexus and Educ-aid in fact,
activities are also extended to schools and
playrooms. The project realizes thanks to the
contribution of the region Emilia Romagna and of
the region Friuli Venezia Giulia (for the
activities to Zavidovici).
20Bosnia
Running
Work in progress
- Sustainable Tourism
- (Work in progress)
- From the experience of Peace Games in Bosnian
territory and of the leagues Uisp in the sports
outside (league Mountain, league Underwater
Activity, area Acquaviva), is delineating a
collaboration for a project of sustainable
tourism in the Balkan area. - The idea is to realize the "sustainable and
solidarity itineraries" in Bosnia Erzegovina,
exploiting her great natural resources of the
territory, traditionally out of the traditional
tourist flows, to stimulate a responsible tourism
with low environmental impact, that constitutes
at the same time a possibility of economic
development for the local population and of
direct knowledge of the territory, in all of its
characteristics, for the tourist.
21Albania
Running
Work in progress
- Good bye Maria, Sport for all the boys of
Scutari" - Scutari - (project waiting for prosecution)
- Scutari is the chief town of the homonym District
to the northwest of Albania, few kilometers far
from the Adriatic and on the shores of the lake
dividing from Montenegro. In the period of the
dictatorship it has gotten worse the process of
social and economic isolation that interests the
whole North of the Country and today Scutari is
an area economically depressed, to the border of
the interventions of the State, penalized by a
difficulty state of social instability and
occupational problem list. It continues the
phenomenon of urbanization of the rural
populations of the zones of mountain, overall in
the external belt of the city, in the
unauthorized houses where the inhabitants live in
precarious way, deprived of the infrastructures
and of the essential and deprived public services
of rights of citizen. Such phenomenon, united to
the traditional stratification of the Scutari
society, whets differences and separations among
the different sectors of the population creating
real ghettos of marginal bands. - Peace Games has realized the first part of a
facing project to introduce in the Scutari
society the instrument of sport as resource for
the social development of the territory and for
the overcoming of the socio-cultural differences.
In the city the sport is felt thanks to a proud
tradition in the volley and in the dreams of the
little boys to become football champions there
is not a great culture about the use of sport
sport as vehicle of socialization and
communication. - In collaboration with the Region Emilia Romagna
and the Municipality of Scutari, Peace Games has
set a support intervention of particularly
fragile subjects as the local community of the
Roma people and children and boys of the marginal
districts.
22Mozambique
Running
Work in progress
- The Football World cup traditionally is a large
visibility moment for the organizer country and a
great opportunity for the tourism. The impact of
the wave of fans following the teams is by a
positive side for the development and for the
economic growth of a country, by the other one it
arouses worries especially in case of developing
countries both for the stability of the
territory, and for the illegal activities that
develop next to the event. - As it regards the World cup of 2010 in Sudafrica,
one of the hardest emergencies is the trafficking
of women and girls from the neighboring
countries, particularly in Mozambique, to insert
them in prostitution system, as it happened in
the World Cup of 2006 in Germany, during which it
is esteemed that 40.000 girls have been moved
from the countries of central and oriental Europe
to start a gigantic system of payment sex. - To help the country to face this risk, Peace
Games and Uisp introduced a project to the
European Commission office in Mozambique, where
they will work on training activity and
sensitization actions revolted to the operators
of the sport world and to mass media.