Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Children with disabilities - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Infrastructure and equipment
Access to Sport - Children with disabilities - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Infrastructure and equipmentContext
Madagascar is one of the ten poorest countries in the world. Since 1989, Father Pedro Opeka and his humanitarian organisation, AKAMASOA, have been fighting the extreme poverty that plagues the country on a daily basis by providing emergency aid to those in greatest need, building houses, educating children, providing healthcare, helping people find employment and providing vocational training for young people.
In 1989, AKAMASOA helped 140 families from the capital, Antananarivo, settle 60km away in Antolojanahary, where the organisation built houses, a dispensary, schools and sports facilities. The village now has a population of 6’000.
Project goals
- Build an artificial football pitch on the existing dirt pitch for the village’s 2,190 schoolchildren as well as other youngsters from the village and surrounding areas, giving every child the chance to play football, have fun, escape their difficult living conditions and the difficulties their country endures, and develop a sense of community
- Enable children to play football not only in their school sports lessons but also, under supervision, during their free time and at weekends
- Stage matches between local teams of children and young adults, bringing together residents of surrounding villages and developing a sense of community
Project content
- Construction of an artificial football pitch for use by:
- one nursery, one primary school, one secondary school and one college;
- 2,190 children from primary to high school age (figures from the 2024/25 academic year).
- Daily sports activities and competitions, including matches every weekend.
- The pitch will be monitored at all times to ensure the facilities are being properly looked after.
Partners
