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About GAME
by GAME
ABOUT GAME
GAME is a fast growing, innovative NGO recognized as one of the world’s 150 best NGO’s. Founded in 2002 in Denmark with a mission to create lasting social change through youth-led street sports and culture, GAME establishes innovative facilities and trains youth-leaders as instructors and role models in street sports and civil society.
The young volunteers, Playmakers, lead practices in street basketball, street football, street dance, and parkour in underserved communities throughout Denmark, Ghana, Jordan, Lebanon, and Somaliland.
The goal is bridging divides and overcome conflicts
GAME PLAYMAKER PROGRAM
GAME trains local youth to become volunteer GAME Playmakers. The training prepares young people to lead weekly practices in street sports and street culture events. Empowerment, life skills, teamwork, gender equality, and civil society is part of the Playmaker training. GAME Playmakers serve as role models in underserved, marginalized communities and they are an important part of the social change that GAME works toward.
GAME HOUSES
In 2010, together with the Municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, GAME opened a street sports facility in an abandoned railway depot in Copenhagen. Today, this facility is a headquarter for street sports and culture in Copenhagen and the first of four GAME Houses that all has partnerships and user involvement at their core.
In 2016 , Esbjerg’s oldest industrial building underwent a transformation from a loved, but dilapidated Danish State Railway depot to a raw, asphalted facility for street sports and street culture, GAME House Esbjerg.
Viborg and Aalborg are the newest members of the GAME House lineup. A worn down laboratory and an old windmill factory is now transformed into living, inclusive places where kids and adults meet for street sports and culture. GAME House Viborg was in 2018 shortlisted for the prestigious EU Mies Van der Rohe Award.
STREET SPORT MICRO GRANTS
GAME supports youth entrepreneurial street sports initiatives, events and ideas via micro grants in Denmark and Jordan.
GOING FORWARD
In 2019 GAME is starting up the GAME Playmaker Program in Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, and Tunisia.
For more, visit GAME.NGO
