Asian-German Sports Exchange Program

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German students giving swimming training to children at Peace Village International, Sri Lanka

Asian-German Sports Exchange Program (AGSEP), is a non-governmental organisation operating in the development political sector in Sri Lanka with a partner office in Essen, Germany.

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AGSEP works with students from leading German universities who are in exchange programs and doing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the fields of economics, political science, social science, engineering and other disciplines. The organisation intends to assist the divided ethnic groups of Sri Lanka to grow together and find peace by exposing the children of the island to children of other ethnic groups as part of sporting events.^[1]^[2]

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AGSEP was founded by Dietmar Doering from Germany, who was an amateur national coach for the table tennis team of Sri Lanka.

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Dietmar Doering and AGSEP students imported more than five million US dollars worth of medicines directly from Germany and distributed them to areas affected by the 2004 tsunami.^[3]^[4]

AGSEP organized the International Run for Peace in Sri Lanka in its bid to promote a lasting peace in the war-torn island.^[5]

AGSEP, with the Princess Diana Institute of Peace, organized a dinner in 2005 to help create awareness on landmine issues^[6]

[edit] References

^ Senaratne, Chula (August 9, 2006). Sri Lanka, gets an Inter-Cultural Peace Sports Centre (English) (HTML). UPF/IIFWP. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
^ Asien German Sports Exchange Programme (A.G.S.E.P.) (German) (HTML). praktikum.info. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
^ Kanagasingam, Rajkumar (December 6, 2005). German hamlet of Asia (English) (HTML). Sri Lanka Daily News. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
^ Kanagasingam, Rajkumar (January 19, 2005). A visit to the tsunami-swept North (English) (HTML). Sri Lanka Daily News. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
^ Three thousand Lankan athletes for International Run for Peace (English) (HTML). Sri Lanka Daily News. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. (June 2, 2005). Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
^ Davis, Stacy Bernard (February 2006). Fifth Annual Night of A Thousand Dinners (English) (HTML). SAFE PASSAGE: A Newsletter for the Humanitarian Mine Action and Small Arms/Light Weapons Communities, February 2006. US State Department. Retrieved on March 9, 2007.