20 Palestinian and Israeli teens of PPI – ME played a friendly game with Ambassador Daniel Shapiro and additional representatives of the embassy and USAID. The encounter with the Ambassador was modeled after a “Twinning,” so that U.S. Government players could experience for themselves PPI – ME’s...
PPI-SA hosted a Life Skills Facilitation and Basketball training. This year, we have a number of new coaches on board, many of which are graduates of our Primary School and Leadership Development Programs.
The twinning took place at the symbolic Ledra Palace in the Nicosia buffer zone. Since the events of 1974, Ledra Palace has been home to the United Nations sector-2 fighting forces. This year however, the UN has made an agreement with PPI-CY to let us use their facilities for our bicommunal...
While uniforms are often perceived to be a divisive thing in Northern Ireland; PPI - NI creates “mates” out of teammates with its Uniforms of Peace.
This is the second year that these two teams are twinning, so they’re already friends and, their Twinnings are full of laughing and horsing around, just as they should be.
PPI Fellow Adam Hirsch participated in the international conference that paired him with Demetris Vroullides, a Greek-Cypriot studying sport journalism in college, to write an article about the media’s coverage of racism in sport in Cyprus. The article can be found...
Students from Holy Cross Girls' and Wheatfield Primary Schools competed against students from Our Lady's and Victoria Park Primary Schools last spring. The students will reunite with their Twinning partners this term for the P7 Twinning.
Sifiso Cebisa and Bonge Dube represent the 80% of PPI - SA's coaches that have grown up through the program: having cycled through the Primary School Program as participants, Leadership Development Program as young leaders, and served as coaches in their local communities before entering their...
Current and former PPI - SA coaches helped out at the elite private school's 3-day pre-season basketball training camp.
Last week, veteran PPI-NI coach, Tony McGaharan, joined our team as a full-time temporary Project Coordinator to assist in the organization and implementation of a number of our programs.
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