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Ultimate Peace sports initiative
Ultimate Peace is a non-profit organisation teaching Ultimate Frisbee to disadvantaged children in areas of conflict - they visited Tel Aviv to teach the sport to over 140 Israeli and Palestinian children [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
Published On 14 Apr 2009
14 Apr 2009
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Ultimate is a non-contact and self-refereed sport with a focus on fair play and sportsmanship, here Israeli and Palestinian girls practice throwing the disc [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
The coaches for the week-long event came from elite teams in the US - here they demonstrate how to defend the player with the disc [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
Two Palestinian boys jump for a floating disc - the children play in integrated teams of Israeli and Palestinian children from different villages [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
The children received new team kit from their US club teams who donated new shirts - here two boys received kit from a team called 'Pony' [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
Two Israeli girls celebrate a great day of learning a new sport and receiving new gear [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
140 children, 20 coaches, and dozens of volunteers celebrate the end of Ultimate Peace coaching day that took place in April [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
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Coach Nathan Castine collects signatures from his new friends at the end of the day [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
The coaches visited the Palestinian and Israeli communities to train youth leaders to teach Ultimate - here two Palestinian boys from Tulkarm in the West Bank race to catch the disc [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
Coach Moses Rifkin, who plays for elite US team 'Seattle Sockeye' jokes with Palestinian boys during his visit to their school in the West Bank [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
Two Palestinian boys from Tulkarm leap for a disc - the sport was well received by the children [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
The Palestinian boys challenge their visiting American coaches to a game of basketball while dusk settles over Tulkarm and the rest of the West Bank [MARC ALTMAN 2009 marcaltman.com]
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