The
Asian German Sports Exchange Programme in collaboration with
the sports officers of the Northern and Southern Provinces
will set up two Sports Community Centres in the two
provinces for children between the ages of 10 to 14 years
which would help them to overcome the trauma of losing their
family members in the tsunami tidal waves disaster.
The children will be trained in soccer, badminton and table
tennis for two months which would enable them to get over
their traumatic experience by engaging in those sports.
The children in the two Centres will visit each other after
two months in an Inter-cultural Sports Exchange Programme
which would bring about goodwill and understanding between
the children of Sri Lanka's two main communities.
The two sports community centres will link up with Foster
Sports Clubs in Germany which will provide sports equipment
for the children of the two centres.
The Project has been initiated by the Chief Executive
Officer of the AGSEP Dietmar Doering with the assistance of
Charlotte Trank Hinterberger, a Social Project Consultant
and Psychologist from Freiburg, Germany.
