HOW IT WORKS
Step 1
Sign Up
Provide your contact information, favorite sporting activities, and home city to SawaSport.
Step 2
Interview
Meet via Zoom with a SawaSport representative to be matched with other potential sporting partners in your area.
Step 3
Play
Once you've been matched with a partner, meet at a predetermined location to practice your sport.
MEET SawaSport
ABOUT US
My name is Midyan and I am a social entrepreneur. I like to play team sports. I lived for a while in Lebanon and would spend a lot of time playing basketball with my friend Qusai. In 2020 I came to the Netherlands. I moved to a small, quiet city called Ede. When I arrived in Ede I would play sport, but I did not know anyone and could only speak a little bit of Dutch. I realized that this is not only a problem for me, but also for other newcomers such as students, refugees, and other expats. This is when Qusai and I created SawaSport to help people find sporting partners and connect them with the local communities.
OUR VISION
Our mission is to help people stay healthy, motivated and connected with people in the communities in which they live.
TESTIMONIALS
Hassan and Elle were matched using the Sawasport platform.
Hassan is a university student from Syria and Elle is a master's student from Belgium. They walk together regularly in Amsterdam.
"We enjoy walking together and talking out of this bubble of Corona," says Hassan.
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"I was curious in the beginning to know who I was going to meet. After the first meeting, I found that we had a lot of things in common to talk about," says Elle.
OUR TEAM
MIDYAN ULBAKI
CEO
QUSAI SAKHR
Designer
RACHEL KNUTSON
Volunteer Technical Consultant
JAN KUYPER
Team coach