We support and empower war-displaced children by providing sports, education and personal development programmes to build confidence and self-esteem and prepare them for life beyond the refugee camp.
We have a particular focus on empowering women and girls and promoting gender equality.
By playing together in volleyball and football teams and studying alongside each other in the Green Kordofan classroom, our young people learn skills as team building, leadership, respect for others, and making friends with children from other areas of the camp. Our programme provides a safe space where children can have fun and find a respite from camp, which is very hard.
We use the classes as an opportunity to initiate social change by talking to our children about gender equality, health, cultural and other issues.
We use the clubs as an opportunity to initiate social change by talking to our children about health, cultural and other issues.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
- In Yida camp, we now have 15 members of staff and 50 volunteers working with almost 2000 children and providing sporting activities and educational programmes designed to promote a love of learning, enhance academic achievement and mental and physical wellbeing, and develop social skills.
- Many of our volunteers have come through the Green Kordofan programmes and are now making their own contribution by supporting others.
- We run a girls’ volleyball team – the first in Yida camp, South Sudan.
- We run a Thirty-Eight Football team with girls and boys training and playing together to foster mutual understanding and respect, plus a girls’ volleyball team – the first in Yida.
- We give the children individual and social support around local issues like HIV, social equity, and conflict resolution
- In 2024, we built our own classroom and hired teachers to offer literacy, numeracy and art classes to provide an education to children who have often been deprived of formal schooling for years.
- We give children individual and social support around local issues like social and gender equity, conflict resolution and HIV
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