Bridging Differences: Creating Lasting Social Change through Youth-led Street Sports

Simon Prahm is the co-founder and current managing director for GAME. Founded in 2003, GAME is a Danish-based Top 500 NGO headquartered in Copenhagen with 12 dedicated full time employees, 70 coaches and more than 100 volunteers. Using the ’sport-for-all’ approach its objective is to reach out to underprivileged youth, who have limited or no access to sport in order to strengthen the participants self-esteem, create social empowerment, and counteract marginalization. GAME has been running activities in Denmark since 2002 and started projects in the Middle East in 2007. Mr. Prahm founded this NGO upon graduating from college to use sports to try to bridge differences between migrants and Danish citizens, and will address what he sees as the necessary steps for a citizen to achieve social change.