Childhood with the honor with the official reception of International Play

The 7th International official reception dePl4y was held on November 21st in Shangri it Hotel in Paris.
250 guests and personalities whose 30 high level sportsmen were present for this caritative evening organized for the benefit of ONG Play International (in the past Sport Without Borders), at the time of the World Day of Childhood.

Sport, glamour, generosity and refinement were with go of this evening where all was designed to share one single moment around a cocktail followed by a gastronomical dinner without forgetting the passage to the photocall and the after animated by a DJ. Master of ceremony, Harry Roselmack gave to International Play a cheque of gift of 116.000€ this year to develop its programmes of education by the sport, from which 115,000 children will profit.

Known in the past under the name of “Sport Without Borders” until 2014, Pl4y International is a solidarity association international of general interest and recognized by the Ministry for the Sports, group member S.O.S Youth. Its action extends on many fields of which education for all, accompaniment, the physical and psychological reconstruction after a trauma, prevention of behaviors at the risk and the training of the life in society. International Pl4y chose the sport like synonym of social change.

Created in 1999, association is built around a conviction: “the sport is a source of solutions to answer our challenges of company”. It intervened with more than 500,000 children in 12 countries of which France, the United Kingdom, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, Haiti, Kosovo,   answering educational, social and medical challenges by training local teams of experts and experts teaching and psychological such as teachers, educational sporting, psychological, teachers and trainers but also of the experts.

To help the children in situation from great vulnerability by a nearby work and to prove that the sport constitutes a good means to answer the various challenges, are the principal concern of association. This is why since 2012, the Playdagogie program launched first of all to Bolivia, was started in France in Vitry on the Seine and made it possible ONG to multiply by 10 the number of its recipients.

The Playdagogie method develops a method of active and participative pedagogy, which uses the sporting game and the debate as educational supports in order to sensitize the children on medical and social challenges. Approved by the Ministry of Education main road, the utility of Playdagogie is recognized there in academic success, the wellness of the children and the training of future citizen. Its mission is to rebuild, educate and prevent by the sport; its main aims: to help to overcome the traumas, to support an active education and to promote the food together.

In order to collect funds and thanks to the support of Shangri it Hotel Paris, Pl4y International organizes each year since 2012, a gala evening joining together personalities, international sportsmen and 120 companies, foundations and givers of which Bloomberg, Bow Window Agency, Carpet Care, Elect, ESH Paris School Hotel, Europ Net, Fidal, ISE, Les Halles de Murat, Malakoff Médéric, Nike, NMW, Palazzo, Seenk, Sica, Company SMART IM, The Extra Mile. Since the first edition in 2012, 668,000 euros were collected for the installation of programs educational on the “food together” and of health thanks to sporting teachers, professors and stimulating.

This year, for the 7th edition, Harry Roselmack set fire to the biddings which proposed dedicated balloons, shirts or shoes of sporting great champions present for the occasion. Among those, one recognized Stéphane Diagana, Ugo Legrand (Ugo is one of the heads of prow of All4Kids, the annual auction of International PL4Y), Emilie Gomis, Yannick Borel, Manon Brunet, Enzo Lefort, Charlotte Lembach, Frederique Jossinet, Pascal Martinot–Lagarde, Angelina Lanza, Arthur Bauchet Handiski, Laurence Fischer, Sydney Govou, Florent Pietrus, Isabelle Yacoubou, Harold Correa, Gauthier Klauss, Matthieu Péché, Pierre Rabadan, Alexandre Flanquart, Ladji Doucouré, Eugénie Le Sommer, Estelle Mossely, Clarisse Agbegnenou. , Guillaume Gille, Lucile Woodward, Clémence Calvin or Jules Plisson…

During the dinner, speakers took the floor to thank the givers brought together around tables for 9 guests and a champion each one, a tombola was organized current of the evening
The evening was the occasion to name the award–winnings Playdagogie 2018 and ambassador 2018: Elodie Leclerc, prize winner of the price “Playdagogie 2018, direct of L” school Henri Walon with Valenton and Mathieu Blin, award–winning of the price “ambassador 2018”.

Appointment the next year for the 8th edition of the official reception and the 20 years of association   but before for other demonstrations of which that of December 18th at 18:45 with the “Large Neighbors” (14th), “inclusion in the starting block” concerning the social inclusion of the refugees and asylum–seekers through the sport, it will be followed of a session of Thinking Design with the participation of representatives of the Town hall of Paris, Playlab, the House of the Channels, movement UP, the founder of Bike Bridge, president de International and directing Play of Ashoka Europe, of the spokesperson of the UNHCR Within the framework of the end of the project of incubation which allowed the accompaniment of 7 carriers of projects of 7 different countries in Europe, International PLAY produces a report of innovation intended to impel new concrete and collective initiatives in Paris, in France and in the European Union by 2019. This initiative is carried out in partnership with the European Commission, the Town hall of Paris, Bloomberg, UP Mouvement, the Channels, the agency of the United Nations for the Refugees.

On May 16th, 2019 will take place the 7th edition of the race “Vertigo” to the Tower First with Defense, higher French building with its 230 meters, 48 stages and 954 steps, in an environment disco music of the Eighties.

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