Sport for Peace and Trauma Healing

PLAY4PEACE AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT

P4PM is a new approach set up by Community Support Center / CSC-Asbl; with the aim of giving joy and hope to the most vulnerable with the intention that after having regained joy they will become productive members of society. P4PM helps to empower the most vulnerable and build bridges between those most discriminated against and those living a normal life. CSC-Asbl plans to create P4PM clubs wherever it operates in order to facilitate meeting up with survivors and victims. A P4PM club welcomes all children and girls without distinction of sexual orientation, origin or ethnicity, to play different games such as: Football, Yoga, Skipping rope, zango, word games, basketball, volleyball and many others.

Why are we playing?

The purpose of our activities is to give joy and hope for a better future to survivors and victims, this joy and hope is aimed at helping make them productive members of society. We also play for:

Peacebuilding,
Trauma healing
Social reintegration
Social cohesion and inclusion
Rights of the child
Conflict resolution and well-being

P4PM uses sport as a tool for peacebuilding, promoting children's rights and improving the mental health of child survivors and victims of war, ethnic conflict and violence in the eastern DRC.

Play4Peace and Mental Health Support (P4PM)

CSC-Asbl is developing a new sports program for children and young women survivors and victims of ethnic conflicts in the province of South Kivu.

Thanksfulness to all those comitte tu support our work

Sport for equality for all

Belonging to a group is made possible by sport and its values and this facilitates integration, the fight against isolation and existing discrimination. Sport makes it possible to exchange, create a network, to integrate into a group through the sharing and conviviality that it establishes

Sport as holistic child development

Sport promotes the integral development of children and adolescents, preparing them to better manage their needs, desires and perspectives, encouraging technical, social, communicative skills, essential for individual and social development.

Sport for bring back hope and joy

Sport has virtues on the mind and in particular helps to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Indeed, during a sports practice, the body secretes so-called happiness hormones. These hormones are endorphins and dopamine and act directly on the brain