My involvement in Sport for Development started off after the realization that sport can be an integral part to bringing people closer. So in partnership with the United Nations Millennium Campaign in 2008, I was first able to pilot how sports especially soccer can be used as tools for propagating the Millennium Development Goals. This yielded a lot of successes and till now I am very much eager and keen to doing more.
Musa Ansumana Soko
Executive Coordinator
Musa Ansumana Soko's Biography
In the early years of 2002, when an end to the Sierra Leonean war was officially declared, Musa founded the Youth Partnership for Peace and Development after volunteering with the NGO, Peacelinks Sierra Leone as President of the Young Generation; program dealing with young people and communities. He continued developing innovative and inspiring post-conflict approaches and projects that help young people to cope with the effects of war through overcoming societal reconciliation with former child/youth combatants in conflict and conflict-free zones.
After being awarded multiple prestigious scholarships and fellowships, Musa is a great example of a peacemaker and change agent because of his character of peace, his relentless efforts to redeem youth from the horrors of war and his dedication to using education and training as a tool to create peacemakers for the future.
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