Global Sport Fund delegation sets off for Poland
July 15, 2009
The core team members of Doha based Global Sport Fund, a joint initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) and the Qatar Olympic Committee(QOC), are leaving for Poland, on Thursday, to organize a week-long international youth camp from 20 to 26 July at the Olympic Training Centre in Spała. Over 150 youth and coaches will be learning the Global Sport Fund (GSF) way of using sport to teach adolescents about important life skills at this camp.
This camp brings together participants from 14 central and eastern European nations such as Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia, Ukraine and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Qatar is also participating with a team of 14 youth and 4 coaches.
The members of the GSF team include Mr. Carl Marsh, the GSF Project Coordinator from the UNODC, Ms. Khawla Khalid, the Coordinator of the QOC team and head of international relations for QOC, Mr. Mubarak Mohamed Al-Kaabi, the head of the agreements unit, Mr. Hamad Yousef Al-Obaidly, the head of the QOC web-site unit , Mr. Louis Louis, international relations expert for QOC, Mr Eisa Ali Ghanem Ibrahim, the head of Olympic sports and Paralympics unit, Mr. Khaled Al Khuzaei, the head of reception and hospitality unit and Mr. Hamad Al-Obaidly, QOC's accounting auditor.
The team will ensure that the GSF Spala camp participants have non-stop fun on the field while participating in learning sessions on topics such as, playing by the rules, fair play, teamwork, respect for others, and awareness of the harm of drug use and behaviours that could lead to delinquency.
Earlier in February this year, the GSF had staged another international camp in Cairo, Egypt, where 180 youth and coaches from 17 countries in North Africa, the Middle East and West Asia, took part. To date over 480 youth and coaches from 22 countries have participated in different GSF model youth camps.
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