2022 PeacePlayers Impact Report FINAL - Flipbook - Page 6
SPECIAL WORDS FROM OUR ALUMNI
connections are really important for the
“Global
development of youth. Kids get to build relationships
beginning, when PeacePlayers got started, it
“Inwasthebasically
all American, with maybe one or two
with people from other sites with a common purpose.
Those friendships teach them how to collaborate and
work together to make positive changes all over the
world.
People working together is really powerful. Two people
cannot move a truck on their own but if hundreds of
people come and work together they will be able to
move the truck. One site on its own can only impact
their community but all the sites working together can
generate a more powerful message all around the world.
”
TURHAN BAYRAKTAROGLU
PeacePlayers Cyprus alumnus and coach
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Northern Irish staff. By the time I joined PeacePlayers
in 2012, the program was already led by local people,
but together with American fellows. For me, the
fact that the coaches come from here is a good thing,
because they’ve gone through what we’re going
through.
Now, I’m a coach in PeacePlayers, too, and I get to be
that person for someone else.
”
LIAM SHANNON
Alumnus of Belfast Interface League and Leadership Development Program,
currently a coach with PeacePlayers Northern Ireland
