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The 'Child Protection & Youth Empowerment in Iraq' initiative aims to improve life conditions for vulnerable children and youth by using the social qualities of sport to create safe spaces, cultivate social networks and stimulate civic engagement and participation across social, ethnic, religious and sectoral divides. Specifically, the initiative will mobilize 140 unemployed young men and women in the Youth Leadership Education, where they will obtain transferrable skills and learn to arrange non-competitive sport activities for 2000 at-risk-, returnee/IDP- and other vulnerable children as well as organize and facilitate an independent project addressing a civic issue in their community. By engaging different stakeholders in the social and educational activities, the project will cultivate cross-sectoral social networks that empowers both the individual and the collective to actively participate in society and create life-enhancing opportunities for themselves and others.