Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development - 
Strengthening partnerships
Access to Sport - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Personal development - Strengthening partnershipsContext
For children in Morocco, Tunisia and Libya, access to physical education is limited, the school dropout rate is high and the economic situation is far from easy. Moreover, in Libya and Tunisia, their lives are made even harder by war and instability.
Lack of access to sport and physical education is detrimental to children’s physical and mental health, and it limits their personal development. This can lead to young people taking risks, including illegal migration.
Project goals
- Improve children’s physical and mental health by integrating sport and physical exercise into the school syllabus of 20 primary schools, encouraging 12,000 children to exercise regularly
- Create jobs for young adults to foster their social and economic inclusion
- Promote gender equality
- Reduce the school dropout rate by creating a more stimulating and inclusive school environment
- Offer an alternative to illegal migration by creating jobs for local people and opportunities for economic inclusion
Project content
- Supervised sports sessions in primary schools featuring activities designed to improve children’s motor skills, coordination and self-esteem
- Health and well-being workshops teaching young people about nutrition, hygiene and healthy lifestyles
- Promoting gender equality through the equal participation of boys and girls
- Training and employing 20 young adults as sports activity leaders
- Annual national tours delivering sports and educational activities in schools across each country, including in rural areas, with the participation of 9,200 children as well as their parents and teachers
- Engaging parents, teachers and the local community to ensure the programme’s sustainability
Partners
