sportanddev - The International Platform on Sport and Development

By Haneen Alkhatib, sportanddev

For more than seven years, I have worked as a practitioner in the field of sport for development, both on and off the field. Throughout this journey, I have designed, planned and implemented programmes that use sport as a tool for social change. I have seen first-hand how sport, when intentionally an...

Waves of Inclusion (WoI) is an Erasmus+ Small-Scale Collaborative Partnership in the field of Sport funded by the European Union that explores this question through an integrated approach combining water-based activities and mindfulness, and meaningful interaction between refugee and local youth.

The project brings together four organisations from Greec...

On Friday, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe walk into Arthur Ashe Stadium and displayed something American tennis has not seen in more than half a century: a Black American man in the US Open men's final. This comes 54 years after Arthur Ashe himself last reached that final, in 1972 and 58 years after Ashe became the first man to win the US Open in the Open Era...