Fight for Peace
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>View discussions about this entry Country: Brazil
Organization: Fight for Peace
Sport: Other
Year the initative began (yyyy) 2000
Project URL: http://www.myspace.com/fightforpeacefilms
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What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? mobilize children and young people, promoting and and guaranteeing their rights as children through sport activities and through “Participative Sport"
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? To offer sport activities which not only aim at the inclusive aspect and the fulfilment of their full potential, but also focus on the aspect of giving these children a better quality of life. Leisure for us is seen as an act of having experiences and learning, aiming at forming and developing the individual both socially and culturally. To motivate the participants, the activities are developed with universities. These activiteis aim to promote health, the inclusion of people with disabilities, debate gender issues, with youth leadership, educational, emotional, and behavioural development. Activitices linked to fighting and cultural sports will be offered: boxing, wrestling and capoeira. Other modalities will also be presented, demonstrating other possibilities of sporting pracitice. As an integrated activity, the participants will be assisted by a multidisciplinary group of professionals who will offer orientation about citizenship (obtaining documetns, rights of the child and adole
What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change? The biggest problem we are trying to address is to promote social inclusion, and enable the participants to feel like they are citizens with rights, who exercise their citizenship pro-actively. We hope to influence the participants to be actors of social transformation, reducing their participation in violence as the only option in the face of few opportunities.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? The activities will be implemented within the action plan organized, aiming at assiting the beneficiary public of children and youths from 7 to 25 years of age who live in vulnerable social areas. The initiative will be publicized, applications will be received, and the performacne of each participant will be monitored by an inter-disciplinary team. The activities will happen in an integrated manner and will be permanently monitoerd and evaluated in order to addres issues and improve its delivery.
How do you plan to grow your innovation? By documenting all the planning and implementation process, which will serve as reference material for the initiative to be replicate internally, as well as by other institutions that use sport as a tool for social change.
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. Active involvment from the participants, promoting a sustainable attitude of respect to their peers and to themselves.
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries? To contribute with the growth process of children and youth through the benefits of practicing sports (respect, dedication, discipline, an increase in self-esteem). Sport is a right that should be available to all citizens. Social inclusion through sport, and the assurance youths have access to it, should occur through a wide range of sport manifestaations, always within the perspective of citizenship, diversity, and inclusion. According to the National Policy of Sport, sport can be offered in different dimensions: educational sport, leisure or recreation, and competitive sport.
Fighting sports are particularly important because they offer the adrenaline that the involvement in armed violence also offers, but is accompanied by discipline, responsibility, behaviour rules and team work, which make the student feel as part of a group. The access to sport promotes health, increases self-esteem and is a strong incentive for kids not to use drugs. Sport also develops discipline, dedications
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation? ? Influence in the inter-personal relationships (family,friends, school colleagues, teachers, etc.)
? Contribute to their citizenship formation (thinking about a life project, using drugs, using arms, fights etc) ? Reference of activities as a positive model What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact? One of the main limiting factors is the interruption of the activities due to lack of invesment in human and financial resources. Another important aspect is the social dynamic of the community, when conflicts which happen regularly prevent the realisation of the activities. This demobilizes the group of participants.
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? The initiative shall be financed with the support of the activities already established, by the existing partners, and with the mobilisation of new institutional and financial partners, in addition to voluntary contributions – either financial or in-kind (food, sport equipment, t-shirts, etc.)
If known, provide information on your finances and organization. • Annual budget: 500.000,00
• Annual Revenue: 200.000 Staff numbers: (3 boxes: full time, part-time; volunteers): Full time - 07 Part time - 08 Volunteers - 03 What is the potential demand for your innovation? Currently the intake capacity is of 300 participants, which can go up to 500 participants with further investment in human and financial resources since we have the physical structure to perform the activities (a 480m2 building with one floor dedicated to sports practice, and one educational floor with classrooms, TV equipment, video, and a computer room with 10 computers)
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? To maintain the activities and implement new ideas, one of the difficulties is to depend on annual financing and permanently search for support in the long-term. Despite the long-term plan for the establishment of a social enterprise, when confronted with the parcial self-sustainability, there is a period during which the support of strategic partners who believe in our idea is fundamental.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. Fight for Peace begun in 2000 as a project of the NGO Viva Rio
Luke founded FFP in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 (while working for Viva Rio) and is now replicating the programme internationally. Luke is also the founder and was coordinator of the Children and Youth in Organised Armed Violence Programme (COAV) at Viva Rio in Brazil. Luke has a masters degree in social anthropology from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) for which he wrote his dissertation on violence and the lives of Brazilian street children. Luke is the author of Children of the Drug Trade: a case study of children in organised armed violence that focuses on the role of minors in Rio de Janeiro’s drug factions, and Neither War nor Peace which compares the armed role of children and youth in armed groups in 10 non-war countries across four continents. Luke was a keen amateur boxer; in 1995 he was British Universities Light-Middleweight boxing champion and has coached youth boxers in Brazil at FFP since 2000. In June of 2004 Luke was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for ‘services to the prevention of child exploitation and violence in Brazil’. During 2006 Luke became an Ashoka Fellow and received and UnLtd Level 2 Award for his work as a social entrepreneur. In April 2007 Luke won the prestigious ‘Sport for Good Award’ at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Barcelona Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material. This field has not been completed
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Leriana Figueiredo
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Hello,
Here at Changemakers we are familiar with "Fight for Peace" and the work that we do. After reviewing your entry we feel that it does not convey the magnitude and impact of the work that you are doing. Could you add some detail to your entry about how your organization works, what activities you provide and how you go about engaging the community? Also, please explain more clearly the transformation of the communities and the impact of your work. I believe that you could add more information to the "How do you plan to grow your innovation" section as well as the "Please list any other measure relective of the impact of your innovation" section. I hope you will consider these updates!
Thank you
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Hi Leriana,
from what background are the children you´re serving? Do you focus on certain groups in particular? Also, how exactly do you relate sports/education to the citizenship/rights aspect?
Jasper Nicolaisen
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Hi Jasper,
We work in a low-income area with a high death rate from firearms, which makes the area very vulnerable and puts children and young people at high risk of exposure to various types of violence. Although we work with children and young people from 7 to 25 years old, our main focus is young adults (adolescents), who are in a phase that need the most support and guidance. We must help them face vulnerability and promote resilience. We relate sports with education and citizenship in a way that is fully integrated with the activities, which are all completed in the process of developing the children and adolescents.
Congratulations on getting fight for peace up on changemakers. We are also using fighting sports (amateur boxing) as a tool to create stronger citizens and communities. In our case we are working with disadvantaged girls in Berlin and Nairobi. Ispoke to Luke about the new project in London, we should find a way to collaborate on this venture.
How many girls do you have in your programmes as a percentage? How do you attract girls to what is seen as a male sport? Also do you train athletes to compete in bouts - or more for fun and participation. I was also a competitive amateur boxer and was among the first group of women UK sport brought together before they founded a national squad in 1999. Competitive boxing programmes have different challenges than participatory ones.
Please take a look at the Boxgirls Roadwork entry I would love your comments
Heather Cameron
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Hello Heather,
Thank you for your comments. In the boxing classes, it is the girls who have prevailed because they are the ones who sought the project and asked to take boxing classes. The experiment was a success. The participation rate for girls is 36%, a number that has grown since 2003. But we also have female participation in free fighting and capoeira. We pursue sport for inclusion, but we also seek to develop high earning potential by forming competitors. We have 12 women in our boxing cartel, where 1 became the Vice-Champion of Brazil and 2 won the bronze in the "Jogos Abertos" (Open Games), a major competition in São Paulo. Congratulations for taking on the challenge of competing in a sport that is so impressive