Group Category: Sports

Sport Against Violence Iraq (SAVI) is an organization in Iraq that specializes in leveraging the power of sports as a  instrument for fostering…

Ascend Athletics is an organization that supports female mountain climbers through mountaineering-based leadership training and community service projects. They host a two-year leadership…

Free to Run works to support girls and women in areas of conflict, using running, physical fitness and outdoor activities to foster female…

Barracão d’Angola is a permanent cultural center in the village of Serra Grande, Bahia, and home to the Capoeira Center Angola. The center…

In 2007, Capoeira Luanda was founded by Mestre Jelon, Mestre Guerreiro and Mestre Apache with the goal of teaching and promoting capoeira and…

The Jubba Airways Somaliland Marathon welcomes all runners, regardless of sex, creed, color, or national origin and aims to promote sport in Somaliland through the organization of an annual marathon and 10km race in the capital, Hargeysa. As well as encouraging more Somalis to participate in sport, the marathon showcases the hospitable country to visiting foreign athletes. Runners from thirteen countries have participated in the race. This includes runners from the United States, Italy, Ireland, Poland, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Djibouti, Canada, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

The Marathon of Afghanistan is the first-ever International Marathon in Afghanistan. The event provides a chance for international and local runners of all ethnicities, genders, and socio-economic backgrounds to compete in the main event or the associated 10km race.

The Pakistan Capoeira Academy, supported by the Embassy of Brazil in Islamabad, aims to make Capoeira known in Pakistan and to establish an important bridge between Brazil and Pakistan. The Academy offers free classes on a regular basis at the Embassy to engage young people to learn a healthy new activity.

8000ers.com is the leading website for all statistical and climbing information on the world’s mountains above 8,000 meters. The site maintains complete profiles of the world’s tallest mountains and chronicles historical and present day ascents and mountain adventures.

For more information, visit the site here.

Al Hancock is a professional mountain climber from Canada. In 2008, Al became the thirteenth Canadian to climb the Seven Summits. In total, he has completed over twenty difficult, expedition-style summits, many with substantial vertical ice and rock sections. Al also does motivational speaking and climbs in support of Dying With Dignity.

He is currently completing the “Big 14” Challenge to summit the world’s fourteen tallest mountains.

For more information, visit his website here.