PPI – CY Makes Its Video Debut
We’ve been working hard at PeacePlayers International in recent months to significantly upgrade our ability to show everyone out there interested in our work the impact that PPI is making. It’s an...
View ArticleR-E-S-P-E-C-T in PPI-CY
Respect. “Sevasmos” in Greek. “Saygi” in Turkish. Same thing in any language. We show respect to our parents, to our teachers, to our environment. On the basketball court, we show respect to our...
View ArticleTwinning, Spinning, and Ice Cream
View Larger Map Action on the court...after a round of "The Nausea Game." It was only 8:30 in the morning, but the sun’s heat was already piercing. As the girls from Lapta/Lapitos crammed onto the bus,...
View ArticleA Peek Behind the Scenes: An Evaluation of PPI-CY
An independent analysis determined that PPI - Cyprus is helping young people like this become 'agents of change' locally. This blog is typically where we try to introduce you to the human side of our...
View ArticleCyprus Through a Visitor’s Eyes: PPI-CY Fellow Gets a Visit from His Parents
My parents and I at the top of St. Hilarion Castle in Kyrenia It was a happy week for me and PeacePlayers-Cyprus. After 10 months of talking through a small camera over Skype, my Father, Glenn, and...
View ArticlePPI-CY Friendly Matches
For the past 2 weekends, PPI-CY has been organizing Twinnings, where PPI-CY teams from the northern Turkish-Cypriot side of Cyprus play basketball with a PPI-CY team from the southern Greek-Cypriot...
View ArticleNew Fellow Ashley Johnson Arrives in Cyprus
Ashley hard at work in the PeacePlayers Cyprus office. New fellow Ashley Johnson arrived this past Friday at the Larnaca Airport in the early hours of the morning just before the Cypriot sun decided to...
View ArticleLove of the Game in Lapta
Lapta girls working hard on the court Lapta is a small village situated along the northern coast of Cyprus. A small camping grounds stands in the middle of the village just hundreds of meters from the...
View ArticlePeacePlayers’ Girls take the court with local Club teams
The PeacePlayers’ All Girls Tournament in Limassol Today we have a special guest blogger: PPI – CY Program Coordinator, Athanasios Souflias. This past weekend Thanasis organized an All Girl’s...
View ArticleGiving the Gift of Time
A few of our Lapta girls huddle with their teammates before a game with their local school team “When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back....
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