Laureus
OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECTS HAVE CHANGED THE LIVES OF more than one-and-a-half million YOUNG PEOPLE. SINCE ITS INCEPTION, LAUREUS HAS RAISED OVER €60 MILLION AND SUPPORTS MORE THAN 140 sport and development PROJECTS WORLDWIDE.
OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECTS HAVE CHANGED THE LIVES OF more than one-and-a-half million YOUNG PEOPLE. SINCE ITS INCEPTION, LAUREUS HAS RAISED OVER €60 MILLION AND SUPPORTS MORE THAN 140 sport and development PROJECTS WORLDWIDE.
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LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION<br />
FROM RIO TO WOOLWICH<br />
LAUREUS<br />
BOXERS<br />
IN OLYMPIC LEGACY TRIP<br />
Just months after the <strong>Laureus</strong> World Sports<br />
Awards visited Rio, some very special Sport for<br />
Good Foundation project members from the<br />
Brazilian state made a life-changing journey<br />
of their own.<br />
Young People from the <strong>Laureus</strong>-supported Luta Pela Paz<br />
(Fight for Peace) Boxing Academy journeyed to sister project<br />
Fight for Peace in east London to learn about each other,<br />
how they both use martial arts for social good and to build<br />
even stronger links as a legacy of the London 2012 and<br />
upcoming Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<br />
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The exchange programme ran from May 27 to June 3 and<br />
saw seven Brazilian Youth Council Members aged between<br />
16-30 visit the London academy situated in the shadow of<br />
the London Olympic Park.<br />
One of those young people was a very talented young<br />
boxer named Wanderson. Before he arrived, 16-year-old<br />
Wanderson, or ‘Sugar’ to those who know him best, said:<br />
“I am really excited about seeing the Fight for Peace<br />
academy here in London and to meet our friends in the UK.
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