#17 Tamara Awartani - Founder of ‘Palestine Sports For Life’ on Community Development and Resilience

Shownotes: abidimam.com/ps4l An honour to speak to Tamara Awartani from Ramallah, Palestine about growing up and living there before creating a successful NGO to support her community through sport and education. About Tamara Awartani: Tamara is the founder and director of Palestine: Sport for Life (PS4L) - the only local Sports for Development (S4D) organization and member in several international S4D networks. She is the first Palestinian to be a well-known international expert in sports for development and sports management. She planned, designed, implemented and evaluated several S4D programs and modules aligned to the SDGs, specifically in youth empowerment and social cohesion, quality education, gender equality and employment. Tamara has a postgraduate degree in Sport Management from Royal Holloway, London, an MBA in Business and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Jordan. She is currently doing her doctorate at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) in Sports for development as the first Palestinian Academic in the field. Tamara represented Palestine as a speaker in several international conferences, workshops, webinars, and guest lectures. She is a researcher in the S4D field, she also designed the first S4D academic BA program for a Palestinian university. She also co-wrote a curriculum on basketball for development that is being used in Jordan and Palestine.