Sports field maintenance workshop underway
The Namibia Football Association (NFA), the Ohangwena regional education directorate, FIFA and GIZ's sports for development in Africa regional project is offering maintenance and repair training workshop at Eenhana for the rehabilitation of grassroots sports grounds.
The training started on Tuesday and ends tomorrow, with the aim of equipping schools with necessary skills to maintain recently rehabilitated and newly constructed sports grounds. Two representatives per school were invited to ensure that the know-how reaches all the participating schools. FIFA consultant on pitches Ian McClements and GIZ project engineer Melany Neff are leading the workshop.
The ministry of education, together with the ministry of sport, has taken on the task to improve the quality of school and community sport and physical education.
In cooperation with NFA, the German Football Association (DFB), FIFA and German Development Cooperation, School Sport project in the region was initiated, in order to provide sport infrastructure and support the promotion of reproductive health and education through sport. Ohangwena is not only one of the regions with the highest population of pupils in Namibia, but also has the highest number of teenage pregnancies, and is thus the need to involve teenagers in sport.
Sport fields were constructed at 15 cluster schools and one vocational training centre in the region and one school in Windhoek, with a total of 45 sport fields for netball, volleyball, basketball and football. More than 85 000 children and youth have access to these newly built or renovated sport fields and get the chance to participate in quality 'sport for development' training sessions.
Building sport fields means tackling the lack of school sports infrastructure and providing opportunities for meaningful learning. Moreover, teachers received advanced training in the 'sport for development' approach and provide voluntary afternoon sports programmes.
This enables schools to provide extracurricular teaching on issues such as reproductive health and gender equity in a manner that is both engaging and age-specific.
NFA
The training started on Tuesday and ends tomorrow, with the aim of equipping schools with necessary skills to maintain recently rehabilitated and newly constructed sports grounds. Two representatives per school were invited to ensure that the know-how reaches all the participating schools. FIFA consultant on pitches Ian McClements and GIZ project engineer Melany Neff are leading the workshop.
The ministry of education, together with the ministry of sport, has taken on the task to improve the quality of school and community sport and physical education.
In cooperation with NFA, the German Football Association (DFB), FIFA and German Development Cooperation, School Sport project in the region was initiated, in order to provide sport infrastructure and support the promotion of reproductive health and education through sport. Ohangwena is not only one of the regions with the highest population of pupils in Namibia, but also has the highest number of teenage pregnancies, and is thus the need to involve teenagers in sport.
Sport fields were constructed at 15 cluster schools and one vocational training centre in the region and one school in Windhoek, with a total of 45 sport fields for netball, volleyball, basketball and football. More than 85 000 children and youth have access to these newly built or renovated sport fields and get the chance to participate in quality 'sport for development' training sessions.
Building sport fields means tackling the lack of school sports infrastructure and providing opportunities for meaningful learning. Moreover, teachers received advanced training in the 'sport for development' approach and provide voluntary afternoon sports programmes.
This enables schools to provide extracurricular teaching on issues such as reproductive health and gender equity in a manner that is both engaging and age-specific.
NFA
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