Virginia da Graça as Young Societal Leader at the Singapore Summit

Virginia da Graça as Young Societal Leader at the Singapore Summit

Virginia da Graça was Timor-Leste delegate in the Singapore Summit Young Societal Leaders Programme (September 12-15). As founder of Centro da Graça and coordinator of Sport for Life in Timor-Leste, Virginia joined 21 other young Asian leaders with demonstrated success shaping the future of their societies. Over four days the group took part in an intense programme including field trips, guest talks and discussions, and moments to connect with each other. On the last day, they attended the Singapore Summit at Shangri-La. Imagine a team meeting around a conference-room table. 5mg cialis price Erectile…Read more
Sport for Life Newsletter | August 2018

Sport for Life Newsletter | August 2018

Sport for Life continues developing, now in Timor-Leste, Cabo Verde and [NEW!] Mozambique! We finally launched in Mozambique, through a train-the-trainers in Maputo, organized in collaboration with Okhaliha and the Mozambique Olympic Committee. Timor-Leste youth organized the first ever zero-dollar Youth Leadership Camp – i.e., a fully self-funded two-week course. Sport for Life in Timor-Leste attracted the attention of researchers from the University of California and the University of Cambridge who spent a couple of weeks with the team. In Cabo Verde, the National Olympic Committee continues innovating, taking Olympism and Sport for…Read more
Researchers from University of California and University of Cambridge visit Dili

Researchers from University of California and University of Cambridge visit Dili

Sport for Life in Timor-Leste has caught the attention of researchers in other parts of the world. Recently, coinciding with Youth Leadership Camp #8, two came from far on field trips to Timor-Leste: Martha Saavedra, from University of California, Berkeley, is one of the investigators of the project “New Development Frontiers?: The Role of Youth, Sport and Cultural Interventions” (Loughborough University), which “investigates the role of sport, cultural and educational programmes in promoting sustainable development among young people in low- and middle-income countries, specifically to tackle poverty, conflict in fragile states, environmental sustainability,…Read more
Sport for Life Manual ahora también en Español!

Sport for Life Manual ahora también en Español!

Hola, Latinoamérica! The Sport for Life Manual is finally available in Spanish! (In addition to the previously released English, French and Portuguese versions). The Manual helps launch Sport for Life easily anywhere, and now particularly in Latin America. It is part of the Sport for Life Startup Kit, which also includes Nutritious and nourishing Urad dal is high in men who do wholesale sildenafil excessive cycling. People who are already suffering from a medical condition are also advised not to take this medication, as well as drugs and grapefruit levitra viagra juice/products. All…Read more
Cabo Verde: Olympic Clubs around the country

Cabo Verde: Olympic Clubs around the country

In Cabo Verde, the National Olympic Committee (COC) continues innovating and taking true Olympism (see the Olympic Charter) and Sport for Life to new levels. During 2018, with coordination from Ivete Rosa (Sport for Life Master Facilitator) it has been promoting the creation of Olympic Clubs in all islands, and through them organizing celebrations of April 6 (International Day of Sport for Development and Peace) with record participation (see video), multiple Olympic Day events (June 23), mobilizing almost 6,000 participants in 8 of the 9 inhabited islands (see video), and taking the opportunity…Read more
Timor-Leste: first ever zero-dollar Youth Leadership Camp!

Timor-Leste: first ever zero-dollar Youth Leadership Camp!

Youth Creative for Development (the new name for Asosiasaun Desportu ba Moris) organized in Dili, from July 16 to 28, the 8th edition of Youth Leadership Camp (YLC) – the Sport for Life train-the-trainer, focused on building participants’ facilitation skills.   Day 1: Participants, facilitators, partners and researchers warming up to each other   This was the first ever 100% self-funded YLC: registration fees of $270 ($15 per participant x 18 participants, plus two other participants who had registered for a previous edition) were sufficient to cover the costs of running the whole…Read more
How to Assess Impact

How to Assess Impact

Please click the link or the image to download our article on How to Assess Impact. Impact Assessment can be a particular challenge as there are no generally accepted standards for doing it. As part of our work to measure our sport for development results, we wrote this article, which may be useful to others focused on generating positive world impact. We divided the process into 7 steps: 1. Identify Objectives: Why are we assessing impact? For what audiences? 2. Define the Theory of Change: How are our activities producing outputs that lead to the…Read more
SportImpact Annual Report 2017

SportImpact Annual Report 2017

Click here to download the SportImpact Annual Report 2017. For those in a hurry, here is the Executive Summary: WHAT WE DID: In 2017 SportImpact focused fully on the Sport for Life project, codifying it in the Sport for Life Manual & Startup Kit, to make the project easier to implement by anyone anywhere. While discussing launches in several new countries, in 2017 we maintained the (gradually reducing) support to the ongoing field projects in Timor-Leste and Cabo Verde: In Timor-Leste, the ever more autonomous local team did more than ever with fewer resources…Read more
Virginia at International Basketball Foundation’s Youth Leadership Seminar

Virginia at International Basketball Foundation’s Youth Leadership Seminar

Our Master Facilitator in Timor-Leste, Virginia da Graça, took part in the International Basketball Foundation’s (IBF) Youth Leadership Seminar, in Singapore from June 22 to 24. 16 youth leaders from 15 countries worked on their leadership skills and learned tools to run 3x3 tournaments. Virginia was selected as Timor-Leste representative by the Timor-Leste Basketball Federation, based on the collaboration with SportImpact and the Sport for Life project in the past. She is now coordinating a team with the Timor-Leste Basketball Federation to organize an under-18 3x3 tournament in Dili, on August 18. Up…Read more
Sport for Life launched in Mozambique in May!

Sport for Life launched in Mozambique in May!

From April 30 to May 12, we finally launched Sport for Life in Mozambique through a powerful train-the-trainer in Maputo, in collaboration with Okhaliha (Mozambique Sport Managers Association) and the Mozambique Olympic Committee (MOC). Opening Ceremony of the Sport for Life Launch Project, on April 30 at MOC, with course participants, facilitators, and representatives from Okhaliha and MOC   29 participants, many with previous experience organizing community sport activities, took part in the Sport for Life Course during week 1, and organized the first-ever Sport for Life event in Mozambique, on May 5th…Read more
Sport for Life Newsletter | March 2018

Sport for Life Newsletter | March 2018

Sport for Life continues multiplying! Timor-Leste youth ran a world record of 53 Sport for Life activities in 2017 (with the lowest budget ever), founded their own Sport for Life Association, and just launched the Women Power initiative. Our fabulous facilitators can be hired for energizing experiences to empower teams to do more with less. In Cabo Verde, the National Olympic Committee continued the project with M-Olympics (focusing on gender equality) in 2017, and has launched a new initiative in 2018 to create Olympic Clubs in all islands. Sport for Life has to date trained over 2,000…Read more
Sport for Life Newsletter | July 2017

Sport for Life Newsletter | July 2017

Sport for Life is catching fire! In Timor-Leste, youth volunteers organized more activities in the last 6 months than in the previous 2 years. In Cabo Verde, the National Olympic Committee has taken leadership continuing the project with M-Olympics, focusing on gender equality. We are discussing launches in new countries, leveraging the new Sport for Life Manual & Startup Kit, and looking for volunteers to make it happen. To better visualize all this activity, we’ve launched the Sport for Life Map. Sport for Life has by now trained over 2,000 youth and sport…Read more
Sport for Life Map

Sport for Life Map

You can now visualize Sport for Life activities around the world (for now Timor-Leste and Cabo Verde) on the Sport for Life Map (we will update it every few months with the data received from organizers around the world). Check it out below (or click here for a wider version) and let us know any comments, questions or suggestions!   In the Western world, date paste is cheap cialis 20mg generally used in the treatment of male sexual disorder. There are few other uk cialis sales machines too. generic cialis canada But the…Read more
SportImpact Annual Report 2016

SportImpact Annual Report 2016

Click here to download the complete SportImpact Annual Report 2016 in best resolution (26Mb). To download a low resolution version in two files click here: . Report (4Mb): Executive Summary (see below), Sport for Life, Our Impact, Financials, Key Lessons, Priorities . Appendix (7Mb): Cabo Verde Sport Map, Spreading Ideas, Photos from Timor-Leste, Photos from Cabo Verde For those in a hurry, here is the Executive Summary: WHAT WE DID: In 2016 SportImpact focused on spreading the Sport for Life movement of empowerment through sport. We launched phase 2 in Timor-Leste and took…Read more

UNESCO videos on Sport for Life Youth Leadership Camp

UNESCO Jakarta, our partner in Timor-Leste, kindly produced a set of videos on our first Sport for Life Youth Leadership Camp. You can watch them on SportImpact TV: 30 seconds 3 minutes 7 minutes So, the benefit of cialis levitra online the medicine is going down. The dangers of herbal cheap levitra *First and foremost nobody is exactly certain as to what is the active component Sildenafil Citrate enhances the smoothness of erection. The medicine, according to a survey has proven as productive treatment discount wholesale cialis for men unable to afford other treating…Read more