PACES

PACES was founded with the primary goal of providing healthy, safe, and structured after-school sports programs for girls and boys, 7-16 years-old, that encourage positive behaviour change.  By creating safe-havens for children to play and enjoy sports in healthy and productive environments, boys have an alternative to spending their time on the streets, exposed to extremism and violence, and girls are afforded the opportunity to get out of their homes and into programs that empower them.

By incorporating important life skills lessons in our sports program curriculum we teach the children the importance of respect, commitment, teamwork, sportsmanship, and ethics, in a fun, non-traditional setting.  Our coaches are instructors, teachers, and mentors to the children, this gives them the ability to transfer and instill the lessons in a far more effective way than most traditional classrooms.  In order to ensure that our coaches can achieve the impact we envision, we also invest in building their capacities through courses and workshops and by providing them guidance on how to be better role models.

We are active in Palestine (West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem), Jordan and Lebanon and in addition to our core, sports program; we also have additional social civic programs that enhance the impact of our programs by focusing on healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.