The playground helping refugees move beyond trauma

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15 June 2021

Since August 2017, nearly 900,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh to escape systematic discrimination and targeted violence in Myanmar – over half of whom are children.

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23 March 2021

Tackling female genital mutilation through football

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23 March 2021

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a common practice in Guinea. Approximately 94.5% of women aged 15-49 in this small African country have been cut (source: 28 Too Many).

UP’s team in Guinea are tackling this complex issue through an unusual method: football. Working in partnership with Tackle Africa, we are using the beautiful game as a channel to deliver essential sexual and reproductive health and rights information to young people.

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2 April 2020

INSPIRED THROUGH SPORT IN MALAWI

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2 April 2020

Through the Girls INSPRIED project Grace has learnt to see life differently, she has acquired the ability to make informed decisions and has a stronger sense of self-worth

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4 April 2019

Why we do sport for development & peace

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4 April 2019

In 2016 the opportunity arose for UP to merge with International Inspiration, the London 2012 Olympic/Paralympic legacy organisation and a leader in the field of Sport for Development and Peace. International Inspiration had been championing the use of sport in development, to empower disenfranchised groups, and in public education and behaviour-change programmes, since 2007.

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13 July 2018

Podcast: Levelling the playing field for girls through football

Helen Early

13 July 2018

As the men’s World Cup draws to a close, we chat to Dorcas Amakobe – Executive Director of our partner organisation, Moving the Goalposts – about the possibilities football has opened up for young girls and women in Kenya.