I am participating in the Hiking for PACES 2020 campaign, to raise funds and awareness about PACES and the work they do! WHY PACES? - PACES provides healthy, structured after-school sports programs for more than 6,900 Palestinian girls and boys ages 7-16 years every year, living in refugee camps and marginalized areas in Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, free of charge. - PACES builds local capacity by training and hiring +580 leaders in the local communities as coaches to train the children, and partnering with +110 local clubs and sports centers which facilitate the delivery of the program every year. - All PACES programs promote gender equality, and have successfully reached and maintained a 50% female participation rate - Since establishment, PACES has reached out and served over 30,000 children, 2,000 young female and male coaches, and over 100 local sports clubs and other community based organizations Visit www.pacescharity.org to learn more about their work.