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SportWORKS Projects

Commonwealth Games Canada has been involved in over 125 sport for development and sport development projects in over 30 countries around the world. Brief summaries of some of these projects are given below which includes: their geographic location, partners involved, and the associated CGC initiative.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights sport as “an important enabler of sustainable development”. It recognizes the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect, and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and girls, young people, individuals, and communities, as well as to health, education, gender equality and social inclusion objectives. Thanks to the generous support of the Government and Canada and our other donors, CGC is proud to be one of the world’s pioneers of international sport for development and sport development work.

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Ramotswa Youth Sports Association (RYSA) Support

  • Africa
  • Botswana

The Ramotswa Youth Sport Association (RYSA) was established though a partnership with the City of Toronto and the South East District Council. Its goal is to develop an organized, sustainable, sports infrastructure such that sports programs and accompanying healthy lifestyle and HIV/AIDS awareness information is accessible to all boys and girls within the South East District Council. RYSA uses a similar model as Kenya’s Nobel Peace Prize winning Mathare Youth Sport Association (MYSA).

CGC helped facilitate a partnership to enable MYSA youth to help those in the RYSA based on their experience to date.