[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Eric Hodgson A heartfelt account of American volleyball coach Eric Hodgson’s trip to the Philippines to teach aspiring Filipino children to love the game “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”—Anonymous It was a faraway world from the comfortable confines of our practice […]
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RePLAY, ReLIVE, ReCREATE in Tacloban: Community Engagement through Sports
Back in July 2015, Sport Management Council of the Philippines (SportPhil) organized an all-important 3-day workshop, called “RePLAY, ReLIVE, ReCREATE: Community Engagement through Sports,” mainly for psychosocial intervention based on what happened in Tacloban since the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Led by SportPhil’s Geraldine Go-Bernardo (Sport Management), Dr. Marissa Adviento, (Sports Psychology), […]
Not so long ago an all-important 3-day seminar-workshop on community engagement through sports was organized by Sport Management Council of the Philippines (SportPhil). The event “RePLAY, ReLIVE, ReCREATE” (3Rs) was held last July 16 to 18, 2015 in selected venues in Tacloban, Leyte and Basey, Samar. In partnership with Chung Ang University students and teachers […]
Here is a video of sport management students from De La Salle University who did service learning for sports, in which students applied what they learned into meeting the needs of the community. Targeting the children and club members of Valenzuela, the training used tennis to promote sports and healthy living. Sponsored by SOLINCO, makers of high performance tennis equipment, […]
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Play Like A Girl: An Introduction to Sports Camp ‘Girls Got Game’
Girl power is in full swing, as women in various industries are finally making their presence felt, realizing their crucial role in shaping the future of individuals, communities, and the world. In the realm of sports, a small but active pro-girl initiative is hoping to do just that. Girls Got Game (GGG) is a roving […]
Barely 2 months after Typhoon Haiyan struck, Dr. Kong-Ting Yeh, President of the Asian Association of Sport Management (AASM) launched the campaign Sports for Love with the goal of comforting the victims of the disaster through sport. After months of organizing and soliciting, the day finally came in August 2014 for Dr. Yeh and his […]
By Dina Bernardo, SportPhil Founder The Philippines sustained numerous devastation in 2013. Below are four (4) relief efforts that used sports to give affected places something to root for past their post-disaster problems. Can Sport be the Answer? Since 2002, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) have researched and documented the timely and purposeful administration […]