(July 1, 2021) – Para Taekwondo star Parfait Hakizimana, a Burundian refugee living in Rwanda, was named to the Paralympic Refugee Team this afternoon. Living in a camp for internally displaced people in 1996 because of the Burundian Civil [...]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – (June 21, 2021) World Taekwondo President and Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) Chairman Chungwon Choue reiterated the two organization’s commitment to supporting refugees and displaced persons through sport during the first World Refugee Forum on World Refugee [...]
Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation is delighted to announce that three Taekwondo athletes will compete for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi (W-57kg), Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (W-49kg) and Abdullah Sediqi (M-68kg) have been selected [...]
The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) today signed a cooperation agreement with Fondazione Umanitaria Italiana Taekwondo (FUIT) as the two organisations pledged to work together to promote mutual humanitarian activities. The agreement was signed during an online ceremony. Under the [...]
On the occasion of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), children from Zaatari and Azraq refugee camps in Jordan had the opportunity to take part in online training sessions aimed to transmit to the young [...]
Farah Al Assa’ad, THF Coordinator in Jordan, is currently on her way to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and will show THF flag at the summit. If you wish to support her initiative, you can donate to the THF Donate Now [...]