📍 Location

Virtual / Remote (Zoom/GMeet Link will be sent around August)

📅 Timeline

• Event Date: August 8, 2026 (International Safe Sport Day)
• Time: 8:00AM to 11:30AM
• Time Commitment: Single-session attendance (3 hours)

📝 Project Description

Are you a sports enthusiast, youth worker, coach, teacher, or community advocate passionate about child welfare? We invite you to be a part of this vital conversation!

In celebration of International Safe Sport Day, the Davao Durians RFC (Davao Rugby Inc.) is hosting a specialized virtual safeguarding workshop. This interactive session focuses on how we can collectively institutionalize child protection framework protocols across community sports, ensuring every child and vulnerable adult has an empowering, secure environment to play and grow.

Our speakers will dive deep into building safe sporting environments, creating interactive life-skills activity flows, and establishing practical safe-sport guidelines. Come learn, share your experiences, and network with fellow changemakers from across Mindanao!

🌍 Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

By participating in this workshop, you are actively contributing to global efforts toward sustainable development through the lens of Sport for Development (S4D):

• SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being – Promoting safe physical activity and protecting the mental and emotional well-being of young athletes.
• SDG 4: Quality Education – Equipping educators and coaches with crucial safeguarding knowledge to foster inclusive, non-formal learning spaces on and off the field.
• SDG 5: Gender Equality – Creating equitable and secure sporting environments where girls and boys are equally protected from discrimination, harassment, and harm.
• SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions – Ending all forms of violence, abuse, and exploitation against children by strengthening organizational safeguarding policies.
• SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Uniting local government units, schools, sports clubs, and civil society organizations to build a unified front for child safety.

👥 Who Should Attend? 

We are extending a warm invitation to:

• 🏃‍♂️ Coaches & Athletic Mentors: Community athletic coaches, sports club leaders, and grassroots youth sports mentors.
• 🎒 Educators & School Staff: Physical Education (PE) teachers, sports coordinators, and school division representatives.
• 🤝 NGO & Community Care Workers: Staff and volunteers from child welfare organizations and development sectors.
• 👑 Youth Leaders: Student council leaders, youth sports advocates, and members of local youth development councils.
• ❤️ Parents & Guardians: Anyone interested in understanding child and youth protection standards in community programs.

🛡️ What You Will Gain From the Workshop:

• Practical Frameworks: Learn concrete steps to apply child and youth safeguarding policies in your own sports programs or organizations.
• Resource Toolkits: Gain access to strategies that link physical sports activities to vital life-skills, the SDGs, and social themes.
• Certification: Receive a Certificate of Participation from Davao Durians RFC.
• Community Connection: Connect and collaborate with a wide network of community leaders, development advocates, and sports mentors.

🔗 How to Register

Secure your virtual seat today! Click the "Join" / "Volunteer" button below to sign up as a participant. Our team will email you the official Zoom meeting details, briefing guidelines, and workshop link as the event approaches.

Let's work together to make safe sports a reality for every child!