Judo Paralympian · Yemen 2020 · Nine travellers on the road
I went to Yemen looking for a peace centre. Then I understood it was never missing.
My name is Shugaa — it means courage in Arabic. I am a blind Paralympic judoka from Hannover, and PEACE ATHLETE is what grew out of that: a movement that starts inside a person and reaches as far as the soil, the road, and the people who need it.
The projects
Three things, one question
Everything here answers the same question at a different scale: am I with existence, or against it?
01
Aden to Sanaa · 2020
Yemen
The project that started everything — and the one that most needs people behind it.
Fund the next Yemen chapter →02
Nine travellers · one self-built trailer
Bike to the Roots
A peace movement on wheels, broadcasting one hour a day from wherever we stop.
Help finish the trailer →03
The base of our life
Save Soil
You can eat food for a day. You cannot eat soil. Once it is gone, it is gone.
Sponsor a runner →What already exists
2020
Mini-Olympics in Yemen — first medals ever handed out there
44
paintings of that journey, now on exhibition
9
people living out of a self-built trailer, one hour live every day
One thing you can do today
Fund the next Yemen chapter
Every contribution goes back into the ground programme — the work that has to happen for Yemen, not only for us.
No account, no commitment. Just a first step — and you can change it later.
What your support does
Feed a family in Yemen
Yemeni soil is exhausted. Supporting the farmers there is what makes them independent — not charity, but the means to stand on their own.
Keep the story visible
The Yemen journey became 44 paintings and a film. Visibility is the mechanism — a bigger exhibition means more reach, and more reach means more support for the ground work.
Finish the trailer
Nine people are living out of a self-built trailer on the road. Solar, provisions and equipment are what turn a plan into a journey.
Figures are placeholders until the programme is costed. We will publish the real numbers before we ask for money again.
If you are against existence, you are in war. If you are with existence, you are in peace.
The peace centre is you
Before anything becomes visible, it has to be established in you. That has never needed permission, and it has never needed a large budget. Bring what you have — a few euros, an hour, a shirt, a question. Bring a friend.