Sport for Smiles Project Adds Excitements To Children’s Lives and Promotes their Wellbeing

Children benefiting from the Sports for Smile project, phase 3, are pursuing their sports activities with their colleagues and coaches in an atmosphere  that is full of joy and happiness.

Targeting 500 children (250 boys, and 250 girls), the project which GCMHP implements in cooperation with the GIZ and local sports clubs across the Gaza Strip, aims at promoting the psychological well-being of Palestinian children and adolescents.

The participating children are provided through the project activities with life skills and stress management skills through monthly individual supervision sessions that target them and their coaches, in addition to carrying out awareness-raising meetings that the children and their families attend.

Twenty sports coaches (10 men and 10 women), split between the 4 clubs where the project is being implemented, are carry out the activities with the target group.