200 Refugees Compete as ‘Hope and Dreams’ Championship is Inaugurated

The inaugural “Hope and Dreams” Taekwondo Championships concluded at the Prince Rashid Bin Al-Hassan Hall in Al-Hussein Youth City, Jordan. It was organized by the Taekwondo Humanitarian Taekwondo Foundation (THF) in cooperation with the Jordanian Taekwondo Federation, with the aim being to offer refugee athletes a dedicated competition.

More than 200 athletes participated from the Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps, as well as refugees training in other clubs around Jordan. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics mats were used for the championships. It contributed to enhancing the humanitarian concept of sport and its role in refining the talents of young people, empowering them in their communities, and investing their energies for the better.

“This was a task assigned by THF Chair Chungwon Choue,” said WT Council Member and THF Board Member Maher Magableh. “It represents athletes’ hopes of becoming effective members of their new societies, and their dreams of becoming champions.”