GSF delegation make final preparations for the Poland camp
July 18, 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), arrived in Poland, on Thursday, to organise 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 Qatari delegation held a series of meetings with the Polish delegation to finalise all preparations for the camp.
The fourth international camp will feature a number of friendly competitions in football and handball in addition to programmes and lectures.
In addition, the participants will attend classroom discussions on topics related to playing by the rules, fair play, teamwork, respect for others, and awareness of the harm of drugs use and behaviours that could lead to delinquency.
Prior to Spała, a camp was held in Cairo, Egypt, in February this year, where 180 youth and coaches from 17 countries in North Africa, the Middle East and West Asia took part in a similar programme, this time involving the disciplines of football and volleyball.
Similar camps were also held in Lebanon and Qatar that brought together youth from countries in conflict. It is the success of these camps that has helped the GSF to refine its programme to be held in Poland.
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