The most exciting thing about our vision to introduce baseball in Kosovo is that local guys are getting behind it.
Michael will be heading up to Peja next week to train new Baseball coaches. This project has been organized by one of the guys we trained back in January. He is part of an NGO called Centre for Tolerance and Integration - Pec (CTI-P) and they work primarily in the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslims) community trying to develop activities that will lead young people from multiple ethnic groups into positive relationships with each other.
They recently have received a grant from an international (mostly European) organization called Play International (formerly Sports Sans Frontières). This was a very competitive process that saw 75 NGO's apply for the opportunity. CTI-P was one of three NGOs that were awarded a grant to use. The unique part about their grant was that it is focusing on building understanding and reducing ethnic tensions, and it is aiming to do this through Baseball and Basketball.
I will be training 10 volunteers who will then go on and teach baseball at 20 different activities in 20 different neighborhoods in Peja.
This is a very exciting opportunity for a lot of reasons. It's been great to see a grassroots acceptance of baseball and to see other organizations embrace baseball as a positive force for change in Kosovo. It's been especially nice to not have to do too much of the planning for this activity.
Michael will be heading up to Peja next week to train new Baseball coaches. This project has been organized by one of the guys we trained back in January. He is part of an NGO called Centre for Tolerance and Integration - Pec (CTI-P) and they work primarily in the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslims) community trying to develop activities that will lead young people from multiple ethnic groups into positive relationships with each other.
They recently have received a grant from an international (mostly European) organization called Play International (formerly Sports Sans Frontières). This was a very competitive process that saw 75 NGO's apply for the opportunity. CTI-P was one of three NGOs that were awarded a grant to use. The unique part about their grant was that it is focusing on building understanding and reducing ethnic tensions, and it is aiming to do this through Baseball and Basketball.
I will be training 10 volunteers who will then go on and teach baseball at 20 different activities in 20 different neighborhoods in Peja.
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| The 10 volunteers (along with 3 CTI-P staff members) |
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