International Inspiration launches new project in Jordan
November 5, 2009
International Inspiration a project that was set up to help disadvantaged children around the world has just launched itself in the Middle East. The £25 million project has already established itself in five countries around the globe where it aims to offer sporting opportunities to children who would not usually get the chance to compete. The project also aims to use sport as a way of including usually marginalized children such as the disabled in social activity.
The newest branch of the project is in Jordan. It is hoped that by launching in the Middle East International Inspiration will be able to help children like Mouayyed Badran who has been in a wheel-chair ever since he was born. Mouayyed’s mother sees the project as an opportunity for her son to become either an athlete or a teacher and to help the family improve its way of life. The Badran’s have been living in a refugee camp in the north of the country ever since escaping from the war in the West Bank in 1967.
International Inspiration was born out of Lord Coe’s promise that if London won its bid for the Olympics in 2012 then he pledged to change the lives of twelve million children around the world. It is a partnership made up of the Olympic organising committee, UNICEF, U.K. Sport and the British Council.
One of the ambassadors for International Inspiration is Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson who herself holds fifteen Paralympic medals. She says that many children live in such poverty that they never get a decent start in life. She went on to say that these problems become even worse if that child is disabled.
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