The International Alliance for Youth Sports (IAYS), as part of its ongoing efforts to help ensure that children worldwide are shielded from the horrors of abuse while participating in sports, has released its Child Protection Recommendations.

The Recommendations provide a blueprint for organizations involved in youth sports programming to assist with the planning and implementation of a practical child abuse prevention policy.

Lorrie Fair, a former member of the U.S. Olympic women’s soccer team, visited the Game On! Youth Sports program in Nairobi, Kenya recently as part of a goodwill tour across Africa recognizing innovative sport and development projects that are benefiting children.

Fair is founder of Kickabout, a group dedicated to celebrating the power of soccer as a tool for social change in Africa. Her group is acknowledging special programs like Game On! that are making life-changing differences for children in Africa, as all eyes will be focused on this part of the world this summer for the  32-nation World Cup that will crown a champion in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Approximately 100 children with intellectual disabilities from the East Port of Spain region participated in the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Sport’s first-ever Camp Adaptation at the Woodbrook youth facility in the Port of Spain.

The highly successful six-day camp was conducted based on the principles of Game On! Youth Sports, the signature program of the International Alliance for Youth Sports (IAYS).