The ITTF Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2023 World Parkinson’s Table Tennis Championships will take place in Crete, Greece, in November 2023.
The Rising Stars initiative by Spin Club – the only table tennis club in Iran solely for women and girls – is one of the recipients of the Dream Building Fund powered by the Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD). This initiative aims to mainstream gender equality and promote girls’ rights among young people through table tennis training.
With the support of the Dream Building Fund, Talent4Development (T4D) offers weekly table tennis training sessions that help primary students establish daily routines to better channel their talent and open doors to future opportunities.
ITTF Foundation participated in the 2022 International Expert Training on Sport for Development (S4D), 29 August – 3 September 2022, in Skopje, North Macedonia. This training aims to enhance the participant's competence in delivering S4D workshops and monitoring and evaluation skills through mentoring sessions by experts and peer learning methods.
Table tennis fans from around the world can bid to own the exclusive Dang Qiu and Lin Yun-Ju shirts at the 2022 World Table Tennis Championships, being auctioned to support the ITTF Foundation’s humanitarian projects! Auction is now open for the autographed game-wore shirts of these two world-class players.
Points that tear down barriers by FUDELA (Fundación de las Americas) is one of the Dream Building Fund (DBF) projects that has been running since 2019. This project maximises the power of table tennis to integrate migrants and refugees into the host community in Northern Ecuador. The ITTF Foundation supports FUDELA in realising the goals.
The ITTF Foundation in association with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Development Cooperation/GIZ on behalf of Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung/BMZ) held a capacity-building workshop on using Table Tennis for Development (TT4D), hosted in Kampala, Uganda, by the Integrated Community Development Initiative (ICODI).
The ITTF Foundation in association with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Development Cooperation/GIZ on behalf of Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung/BMZ) held a capacity-building workshop on using Table Tennis for Development (TT4D), hosted in Tehran, Iran, by Spin Club. The workshop, the second in a series of three international workshops, centres on the use of Sport for Development (S4D), focusing on using table tennis for specific development outcomes.
