The countdown has begun! Last year’s edition was a total success with 922 events in 107 countries reaching more than 700.000 people – can we set a new record in 2020?
One day concluded at the NSDF 2019 ITTF World Junior Championships on 24th November; the focus is very much inside Terminal 21 in Korat, the venue for eight days of action. However most significantly, the host, the Table Tennis Association of Thailand, has been looking beyond the four walls of the splendid venue.
The Azraq Refugee camp located 90 km south of the Jordan-Syria border, 100 km east of Amman lies on a 15 km stretch of rocky desert sand. Split between 5 villages, this temporarily encampment currently hosts around 36.000 refugees in rows of white cabins. Drawing from our experience in the Za’atari Refugee camp, we witnessed the need for relief activities for the youth in the camp.
More than 18 months on and our Field Programmes Team are back at the Za'atari Refugee Camp to check on the progress of the Nittaku Dream Building With Refugees project.
We are speaking with ITTF Foundation's ambassador, Sarah Hanffou. She is passionate about education and youth empowerment and is the founder of Ping Sans Frontieres, an organization that develops table tennis as an educational tool.
Applications for the Dream Building Fund are now open! Dream Building is one of our 6 programmes that provides grants for table tennis for development and peace initiatives to support local projects around the world. The 2020 cycle opens today and closes on 10th November 2019.
