Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Gender Equality - 
Personal development
Access to Sport - Gender Equality - Personal developmentContext
Today’s continually shifting economies need a workforce that can think analytically to solve ever emerging global challenges. Students in rural Cambodia lack opportunities to develop vital leadership skills like creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. Traditional schooling focuses on memorisation as opposed to analytical skills and it does not include any sport or physical activity, which we know to be essential for health and well-being.
Project goals
Overall goal
Use sport to support the personal growth and leadership skills of 1,000 vulnerable children and young adults by creating a safe space where they can play sport, practise life skills and become role models for their communities
Specific aims
- Create a safe space for boys and girls to play sport at the learning centre run by Children’s Future International
- Develop engaged community leaders with strong communication, teamwork and critical thinking skills, ethics and accountability, while also promoting gender equality
- Engage the wider community through positive activities that bring together children, young adults, parents, schools, teachers and local authorities
Project content
- Construction of a sports complex including two football fields (one 90m x 50m and the other 30m x 20m), 1 volleyball court (18m x 9m) and related facilities (parking, toilets, sports equipment)
- Implementation of the existing Leadership through Sports curriculum with 1,000 children and young adults, including 52 sessions and 8 league events a year, to which key community stakeholders are invited to attend
- Promotion of physical activities to the over 100 students who attend the Children’s Future International learning centre daily
Partners
