Livingstone Sports Development And Community Project Detail

Livingstone Sports Development And Community Project

The Sports Project consists of 3 main areas of work

Physical Education (PE) within schools - As an African Impact volunteer, you will spend your mornings based in various community schools offering PE lessons, not only to the students, but also to their teachers! As PE is not featured within Zambian educational curriculum, our role is to offer structured sports education, along with the health awareness and encouraging an active life style. In order to make this sustainable and continue without the continual assistance of volunteers, we want to "teach the teachers" the necessity of P.E and a healthy life style as a result of it. PE is unfamiliar to community schools and attitudes still need changing towards its importance however the children absolutely love it and thoroughly enjoy their time volunteers.

Training the Team - African Impact manages the training of an under 11s to under 16's team (U10 to U21) in Livingstone. This team has been established for a long time and has been trained by African Impact since 2008. This team is an all boys community team - as we believe sport and soccer should be accessible to all individuals, even those who do not attend school. Our help within the team ensures regular faces are coaching the team, with international backgrounds for the players to gain a wide range of skills.

HIV Education in sport - As a volunteer you will spend one afternoon a week travelling to different community teams (there are more than 12 connected to African Impact) to hold an HIV in sport workshop. This will involve HIV relay games, team building games, question time and football matches.

School terms 2010
First term: 11 January to 9 April
Second term: 10 May to 6 August
Third term: 6 September to 3 December

Specialist Sports
Your schedule is set for you by the sports coordinating team, however, if you have any particular interests or skills you would like to use, we would love to accommodate it! The children at the schools are always keen to learn new activities - particularly if they come from overseas!! We can set up a class for you to teach Tai-kwon-do, athletics, cricket, or whatever your interest is; we have been known to teach gymnastics to 5 year olds and yoga to 50 year olds! Equipment is very hard to come by so please keep that in mind, if you are able to raise sporting equipment to be donated that you can bring along with you the community will greatly appreciate it.

Please Note: We cannot coach swimming in Livingstone.

Involvement in Community Projects
You will be combining sports coaching with a variety of projects in the local community. This allows you to make a difference in other areas and not just through sport. You will be able to participate in the following projects:

Family Support

Build / paint / refurbish schools and clinics

Home Based Care

HIV Education
Zambia has the HIV highest infection rate of Southern Africa and within its population a minimum of one in six people are living with HIV (statistics are subject to change due to the nature of the disease). Livingstone has one of the highest populations in Zambia of HIV-infected people. The HIV Education course is run by African Impact volunteers and aims to significantly reduce the number of new cases of HIV in the community. It aims to encourage those who have not yet been tested to find out their HIV status and to provide information on available treatment options.

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