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Top UN envoy explores how sports can improve lives of Middle East’s youth<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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29 May 2009 – The United Nations envoy tasked with promoting sport for development and peace is slated for a 10-day trip to the Middle East next week in search of opportunities for using physical activity to improve the daily lives of children and youth in the region. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Starting in Jerusalem on 1 June, Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, will visit various sports-related programmes in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank, including refugee camps run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. Lemke will use his trip to support the UNRWA ‘Gaza Summer Games 2009,’ which brings together 250,000 children in a series of sporting, educational and recreational activities for eight weeks in summer. <\/p><\/div>\n

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“For children who have seen the livelihoods and lives of their families destroyed by conflict, sport can build trust and confidence in a better future,” said Mr. Lemke in a news release. <\/p><\/div>\n

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“Sport and physical education teaches youth and children positive social values and life skills such as team spirit, respect, discipline, leadership, self-confidence, empowerment, tolerance and integration,” added Mr. Lemke. “We have to do our utmost to provide hope and improve the daily life of youth and children since they are the future.” <\/p><\/div>\n

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The Special Adviser will also attend a youth training camp in Jordan, organized by Generations for Peace in Amman, which gathers more than 70 young leaders from 15 different countries. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Before arriving in Jerusalem, Mr. Lemke will travel to Qatar to meet with Government representatives and members of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), in particular its Secretary-General Sheikh Saoud al-Thani, a main supporter of the Global Sports Fund, a joint initiative by the QOC and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC). <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. Lemke will also travel to Bahrain, where he will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, and visit various sports sites. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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