Spirit of Rugby Partners
Spirit of Rugby Partners 2017
Spirit of Rugby Partners 2017
World Rugby’s mission is to grow the global rugby family and is driven by a vision of rugby being a sport for all, true to its values of discipline, respect, integrity, passion and solidarity. As part of its ongoing commitment to social responsibility and sustainable development, World Rugby is pleased to support through its Spirit of Rugby programme the following organisations in their efforts to use rugby as a tool for social development:
Khelo Rugby junglecrows.org Khelo Rugby takes sporting opportunities into socially disadvantaged communities, most of whom would not normally have the chance to take part in organised sporting activity. Children are given the chance to play and learn together in a safe, coach controlled environment. The organisation works in communities where there are few if any activities available for children. Khelo is not about finding the next great sporting superstars but giving children the chance to spend time with a good coach who is also a mentor to provide support as they grow up. Along sport coaching sits a curriculum that introduces the children to some basic key social messages that are rarely taught and which work to encourage children to be leaders in their communities. Khelo Rugby is a social development project of the Jungle Crows Foundation.
Rio Rugby FC riorugby.com.br Rio Rugby FC was founded in 1974 and has grown in size as the game has developed in Rio and Brazil, bolstered by rugby’s return to the Olympic Games during Rio 2016. The club’s Rugby is Our Passion (Rugby é Nossa Paixão) project was created to encourage children and teenagers from poor communities to learn and adopt the strong values of rugby through practice of the sport. Coaching sessions take place for students after classes finish in public schools. As well as the coaching sessions, students participate in tournaments and friendly games in their own category, with the objective of using the sport to create citizen athletes, focusing on the capacity to integrate that rugby develops, making them conscious of their participation in the community and their relationship with everyone else, applying rugby´s values on and off the pitch.
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Spirit of Rugby Partners 2017
SOS Kit Aid soskitaid.com By its 16th year of operation in 2016, SOS Kit Aid has delivered over GBP£5 million worth of recycled kit to some 43 emerging rugby countries right across the world. This rugby kit has been simply collected and recycled from schools, clubs and kit manufacturers from across the UK and Ireland. The provision of quality recycled and new rugby kit has enabled over a quarter of a million disadvantaged youngsters to play rugby with quality kit and equipment. At the same time, SOS Kit Aid has won several prestigious environmental awards for its work in saving over 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions through recycling and replacing kit, extending its life and reducing the need for new kit to be manufactured, thereby reducing landfill and water required for kit production.
Terres en Mêlées terres-en-melees.com/ Terres en Mêlées was created in 2011 with the firm conviction that rugby constitutes a powerful educational tool and a vehicle for cultural exchanges by bringing people of different countries together. It can be incorporated into educational projects for the promotion of peace and to strengthen mutual understanding. Since then, the association has set up rugby programs in France, Madagascar, Morocco, Togo, Burkina Faso with an international team of amateur and professional actors from rugby, education, solidarity community and social economy. In Africa, over 50,000 school children have benefited from rugby with the support of Terres en Mêlées and its partners.
Trust Rugby International trustrugby.org Founded in 2010, Trust Rugby International (tri), is a proactive organisation whose purpose is to promote and encourage an appreciation of equality, diversity and social integration by proactively supporting the development of individuals and communities through participation in the game of rugby in all its forms. tri have assisted in developing participant confidence and social skills through pioneering 'unified rugby‘ in Scotland, where individuals from different backgrounds and communities, with and without intellectual disabilities as well as varying degrees of rugby experience, gather together to play contact rugby together. tri focuses on rugby's core values and add to this tri’s principles of empowerment, pride, trust, inspiration and teamwork, all delivered with a sense of fun and ease to develop confidence in players. We call this ‘Am Fior Spiorad’ – The True Spirit.
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Spirit of Rugby Partners 2017
World Rugby’s mission is to grow the global rugby family and is driven by a vision of rugby being a sport for all, true to its values of discipline, respect, integrity, passion and solidarity. As part of its ongoing commitment to social responsibility and sustainable development, World Rugby is pleased to support through its Spirit of Rugby programme the following organisations in their efforts to use rugby as a tool for social development:
Khelo Rugby junglecrows.org Khelo Rugby takes sporting opportunities into socially disadvantaged communities, most of whom would not normally have the chance to take part in organised sporting activity. Children are given the chance to play and learn together in a safe, coach controlled environment. The organisation works in communities where there are few if any activities available for children. Khelo is not about finding the next great sporting superstars but giving children the chance to spend time with a good coach who is also a mentor to provide support as they grow up. Along sport coaching sits a curriculum that introduces the children to some basic key social messages that are rarely taught and which work to encourage children to be leaders in their communities. Khelo Rugby is a social development project of the Jungle Crows Foundation.
Rio Rugby FC riorugby.com.br Rio Rugby FC was founded in 1974 and has grown in size as the game has developed in Rio and Brazil, bolstered by rugby’s return to the Olympic Games during Rio 2016. The club’s Rugby is Our Passion (Rugby é Nossa Paixão) project was created to encourage children and teenagers from poor communities to learn and adopt the strong values of rugby through practice of the sport. Coaching sessions take place for students after classes finish in public schools. As well as the coaching sessions, students participate in tournaments and friendly games in their own category, with the objective of using the sport to create citizen athletes, focusing on the capacity to integrate that rugby develops, making them conscious of their participation in the community and their relationship with everyone else, applying rugby´s values on and off the pitch.
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Spirit of Rugby Partners 2017
SOS Kit Aid soskitaid.com By its 16th year of operation in 2016, SOS Kit Aid has delivered over GBP£5 million worth of recycled kit to some 43 emerging rugby countries right across the world. This rugby kit has been simply collected and recycled from schools, clubs and kit manufacturers from across the UK and Ireland. The provision of quality recycled and new rugby kit has enabled over a quarter of a million disadvantaged youngsters to play rugby with quality kit and equipment. At the same time, SOS Kit Aid has won several prestigious environmental awards for its work in saving over 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions through recycling and replacing kit, extending its life and reducing the need for new kit to be manufactured, thereby reducing landfill and water required for kit production.
Terres en Mêlées terres-en-melees.com/ Terres en Mêlées was created in 2011 with the firm conviction that rugby constitutes a powerful educational tool and a vehicle for cultural exchanges by bringing people of different countries together. It can be incorporated into educational projects for the promotion of peace and to strengthen mutual understanding. Since then, the association has set up rugby programs in France, Madagascar, Morocco, Togo, Burkina Faso with an international team of amateur and professional actors from rugby, education, solidarity community and social economy. In Africa, over 50,000 school children have benefited from rugby with the support of Terres en Mêlées and its partners.
Trust Rugby International trustrugby.org Founded in 2010, Trust Rugby International (tri), is a proactive organisation whose purpose is to promote and encourage an appreciation of equality, diversity and social integration by proactively supporting the development of individuals and communities through participation in the game of rugby in all its forms. tri have assisted in developing participant confidence and social skills through pioneering 'unified rugby‘ in Scotland, where individuals from different backgrounds and communities, with and without intellectual disabilities as well as varying degrees of rugby experience, gather together to play contact rugby together. tri focuses on rugby's core values and add to this tri’s principles of empowerment, pride, trust, inspiration and teamwork, all delivered with a sense of fun and ease to develop confidence in players. We call this ‘Am Fior Spiorad’ – The True Spirit.
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