uganda 2012/2013

Young Coach-Education Programme with Emphasis on Health/Hygiene

Duration: May 2012 - April/May 2013
Region: Entebbe with one project module in Gulu
Status: Ongoing

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Since May 2012 The Football Club Social Alliance is engaged in Uganda. Together with SOS Children’s Village Uganda as main local partner, Scort initiates a new project following a multi-ethnic approach where young women and men from different parts of Uganda (e.g. from Gulu, Lira, Karamoja, Fort Portal, Mukono, Kampala, Entebbe) become Young Coaches.

Uganda is still among the world's poorest countries. About 50% of Ugandans are under 15 years. Many children and young people are confronted with poverty, lack of educational opportunities and perspectives. Northern Uganda suffered for more than 20 years from an armed conflict where thousands of children where forcibly recruited as child soldiers and where 1.6 million people had to live in refugee camps. Since 2006 there has been no armed conflict, but the consequences are omnipresent. Further, in north-eastern Uganda (Karamoja) there are (violent) conflicts between different ethnic groups.

For the education programme the local project partners (see below) have selected young women and men who have been working regularly in schools and aid organisations with disadvantaged children. Through the training they learn to use football in their work with children. They can independently plan and implement football activities (e.g. football tournaments or festivals) and use them for delivering social topics (e.g. role model function of a coach, fairness, teamwork, dealing with conflict and aggression). Experts of our local partner organisations broaden the training programme, led by the football instructors, with non-football related project topics such as “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene“ (WASH), Malaria or Children’s Right. The Novartis Malaria Initiative (www.malaria.novartis.com) will donate malaria educational materials to be used in training our Young Coaches about malaria and how to deliver key educational messages to the children and communities that the Young Coaches work with.

Besides providing know-how to the Young Coaches the project aims to foster the relationship between Young Coaches from different parts of Uganda. Enabling, the participants to get to know each other better and learn more about their living conditions and reduce prejudices. The goal is that the young adults with different ethnic backgrounds work together in a project that encourages dialogues and builds confidence.

Participating Partner Clubs

Supporters

Leopold Bachmann Stiftung

Fritz-Gerber-Stiftung

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Main local Partner

SOS Children’s Villages Uganda is a member of SOS-Kinderdorf International, a worldwide, independent, non-governmental social development organisation, and works with four children’s villages for the well-being, interests and rights of children.

Further local Partner Organisations

The Welthungerhilfe, one of the largest non-governmental organisations in Germany, is committed to fight hunger and poverty in more than 40 countries with over 2,000 local employees and 115 partner organisations.

The Kids League is a non-governmental development organisation whose mission is to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people through using the power of sport and recreation.