A conversation with Tamara Awartani, co-founder of Palestine: Sports for Life. Across the sport-for-development world, the idea of a safe space is central — a place where young people can play, learn, and belong. In Palestine, that idea carries a different weight. Safety here is not only emotional; it’s physical and political. Since 2011 , Palestine Sports for Life has been creating those safe spaces — using sport and life skills to reach marginalised communities across the

An Indonesian programme taking a less travelled path to tackle gender inequity When Hans Sraun grew up in Papua, a cluster of islands on Indonesia’s east coast, he had a completely different view of women than he does now. Gender equity was something he had never heard about, let alone experienced. In the nineteen-year-old’s village, he learned to see men as superior across many aspects of life. Not only was football thought of as a sport belonging entirely to men, but he bel