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), […]
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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 […]
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 […]