The Youth Charter became a United Nations Accredited Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in 2000 and helped to inspire the Sport for Development and Peace movement. The agency’s projects and programmes contributed to the then Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) for Africa, which now sees the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) globally aiming to improve the lives of young people and communities across the five continents.
The Youth Charter’s Global #Call2Action has identified 7 of the SDG’s that delivers a sport for development opportunity for a compassionate coalition to provide a more strategically focussed and evidence-based impact and approach to deliver the UN’s theme of mental, physical and climate health and well-being - "Scoring for People and the Planet"...
“Sport is education, the truest form of education, that of character. Sport is culture because it enhances life and, most importantly, does so for those who usually have the least opportunity to feast on it.”
