Partnership with Peace One Day A Huge Success
October 17, 2014. Earlier this year Coaches Across Continents announced the largest partnership in sport for social impact. Together with Peace One Day, we teamed up to supply organizations with a free soccer resource packet that uses CAC games to educate about peace and encourage the development of skill sets that lead to peace building. On 21 September, these efforts came to the fruition when millions around the world celebrated and recognized Peace Day.
Together with Peace One Day, Coaches Across Continents is using their One Day One Goal platform to use football as a peace building educational exercise. Along with their other efforts, the goal for 2014 is to have Peace Day recognized by one billion people globally. This first year of our partnership was a great start to spreading that awareness. Overall nearly four hundred sport for social development organizations took advantage of this free resource to educate their communities on peace building practices. These included organizations on all six continents, and they were distributed and available in six different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Swahili).
The focus of this year’s celebrations was on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region of Africa (focusing on Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania). So far in those five countries we have confirmation of the resource packet being used by 50 organizations to promote peace, with more coming forward every day. Each of these organizations also held an event for 21 September, the International Day of Peace. These include CAC implementing community partners as well as organizations who have heard about the power of sport through other avenues like StreetFootballWorld, One World Futbol, FIFA Football for Hope, and Peace One Day.
Stories, pictures, and videos from around the world continue to arrive speaking of the incredible power that football has as a unifying factor. Check out some of them on our Facebook page. If you or your organization want to tell your story from Peace Day, please contact us at: or .
Celebrating Peace in Goma, Congo
Celebrating Peace in Diadema, Brazil
Celebrating Peace in Kenya
Get Involved with Peace One Day
April 7, 2014. Coaches Across Continents is proud to announce our continued support of the One Day One Goal initiative for Peace One Day. This extremely important global day is held every September, 21st. In addition to the support from our 75+ communities in 30 countries, Coaches Across Continents will be providing support materials for organizations in potentially over 130 countries this year. Any organization wishing to use sport to promote peace is welcome to contact either Coaches Across Continents or Peace One Day to get involved in this year’s celebrations.
For 2014, Coaches Across Continents (CAC) is launching a Peace Day football resource, aimed at integrating real-life conflict resolution skills into regular football training. Coaches Across Continents, the global leaders in sport for social impact, are launching a series of games that use football to explore, demonstrate and develop some of the skills necessary for conflict resolution and social harmony.
The resource, in support of Peace One Day’s One Day One Goal football initiative, will comprise five games, the first of which will be available to mark the 6 April 2014, the first UN Day of Sport for Development and Peace, with the rest following in mid-June.
From teamwork to understanding types of violence, this resource will encourage organizations and individuals, to integrate conflict resolution skills into their regular football training in the run up to Peace Day 21 September and beyond. Our unique monitoring and evaluation has discovered that 99% of participants best know how to teach children how to resolve conflict through soccer after playing our games, up from 19% at the start of each training.
To access this resource, free of charge, contact us, share your 2014 One Day One Goal match and tournament plans and start using football to help create a more peaceful society.
Emily Lambert; Coaches Across Continents; .
Emma Kennedy; Peace One Day; .
