The Most Important in Brief

The Scort Foundation, founded in 2007, is a politically and religiously independent non-profit organisation based in Switzerland. The foundation’s purpose is to promote and organise sport and play-based activities that foster education, development, and peace.

1. Purpose (SOGC)

   Die Stiftung bezweckt auf gemeinnütziger Basis die Förderung und Organisation von Sportaktivitäten im Dienste der Erziehung und Bildung sowie der Friedensförderung. Die Stiftung ist befugt, alle Rechtsgeschäfte zu tätigen, welche der Verfolgung und Verwirklichung ihres Zweckes dienen. Die Stiftung kann zur Zweckerreichung Mobilien und Immobilien erwerben, zur Verfügung stellen, mieten und vermieten.

2. The Most Important in Brief

   The Scort Foundation, founded in 2007, is a politically and religiously independent non-profit organisation based in Switzerland. The foundation’s purpose is to promote and organise sport and play-based activities that foster education, development, and peace.

3. Goals

   The Scort Foundations envisions a world where young people in vulnerable situations thrive through sports and help create peaceful communities. Key Goals Through joint action, Scort uses sport to… …support people affected by conflict or forced displacement and foster social cohesion. …promote inclusion and coach education opportunities for persons with disabilities. …create safe spaces (online and offline) to protect children in, and through, sports.

4. Principles

   Scort develops and implements educational projects that use sport and play-based activities to empower vulnerable young people. The educations provide new skills and knowledge to help address personal and societal challenges as well as promote peaceful living in their communities. Advocacy activities complement these projects and mobilise partners to highlight the important role that sport can play in shaping, and protecting, the lives of vulnerable young people. Scort specifically advocates for the use of sports in the context of forced displacement as well as to promote child protection through online safety, and to foster the inclusion of people with disabilities.

5. Measures

   Scort’s activities spark positive change in the lives of vulnerable children and young adults through sport. We develop and implement educational projects that use sport and play-based activities to empower vulnerable young people. Our educations provide new skills and knowledge to help address personal and societal challenges as well as promote peaceful living in their communities. Our advocacy activities complement these projects and mobilise partners to highlight the important role that sport can play in shaping, and protecting, the lives of vulnerable young people. We specifically advocate for the use of sports in the context of forced displacement as well as to promote child protection through online safety, and to foster the inclusion of people with disabilities.

Area of Impact

• Switzerland
• Eastern Africa
• Central America
• Andean States
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Developing countries