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Stephen Lewis values sport's power for good

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February 13, 2010

By Gail Johnson
straight.com

“Kids love to play, particularly orphaned children,” he adds. “It helps compensate for loss. It’s a way of sublimating grief. They do it through play. If, in the course of all that, we’re preventing them from getting the disease that killed their parents, then there’s a lovely symmetry to that.” - Stephen Lewis

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Youth delegates say the impact of sport in children’s lives has been underestimated

posted by System Account
October 20, 2009

 

Addressing the Humanitarian, Social and Cultural Committee of the UN General Assembly on October 5, youth delegates from Norway, Turkey, Republic of Korea, Finland, Netherlands and Slovakia spoke about the power of sport and play to change lives.

Jordy Sweep, a delegate from the Netherlands, told the story of 10-year-old Themba, whose mother suffered from HIV and AIDS and whose older brother was a drug addict.  Themba did not go to school to improve his future, but so he could go to football practice afterwards.  Sweep stated that the importance of sports in young people's lives has been greatly underestimated.  Read More...

Play Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, Invigorates the Soul

posted by System Account
October 17, 2009

 

The recently released book by Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist, clinical researcher and the founder of the National Institute for Play, and journalist Christopher Vaughan, discusses the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our intelligence and happiness throughout our lives. Backed by the latest research, Play explains why play is essential to our social skills, adaptability, intelligence, creativity, ability to problem solve, and more. Beyond play's role in our personal fulfillment, its benefits have profound implications for child development and the way we parent, education and social policy, business innova Read More...

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