29/12/2021

Although 2021 was yet another tough year for a lot of sport communities across the globe, it has also been a year when we witnessed ordinary women and men doing extraordinary things, facing the challenges of the pandemic head on so that sport can continue to have a positive impact on the lives of children […]

07/08/2021

In 2020, ChildFund Sport for Development (S4D) launched a Safeguarding in Sport: Online Learning Pilot Project to support sports organisations to improve their safeguarding practices, in response to a growing demand for evidenced safeguarding practices in sport globally. The project was delivered between August 2020 and January 2021, with 31 participating organisations from the Americas, Africa, […]

05/05/2021

Reconnect is a COVID-19 early recovery rugby and life skills curriculum developed by ChildFund, delivered by our rugby partners.  In February 2021, a Reconnect Impact Report was released to evaluate the impact of activities. This will support our learning, as more and more countries move back to modified face-to-face activities in 2021-2022.  In this article, […]

06/04/2021

What is Reconnect? The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruption to the world and heavily impacted the lives of many people worldwide. Children and young people have been particularly impacted and are facing a number of challenges: feeling isolated, losing access to their peer support networks, holding concerns about their own and their family’s health […]