Location and general information
Access to Sport - 
Children with disabilities - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development - 
Strengthening partnershipsContext
Young people have been benefiting from the Mbo Mpenza Challenge’s football tournaments for seven years. For the last year, all schools in the French-speaking Community of Belgium have had free access to the project’s pedagogical resources through their e-learning platforms. Moving forward, the project wants to reach more children and develop its work within schools.
Project goals
- Introduce the Mbo Mpenza method in schools as part of general civics and PE lessons
- Promote inclusion and diversity through football
- Educate young people on tackling discrimination
- Raise responsible, respectful and tolerant citizens
- Evaluate the project’s impact on young people
- Broaden access to sport for all children, regardless of their socio-economic background
Project content
The Mbo Mpenza method fights all forms of discrimination through its work on three pillars: awareness-raising, training and action. By working with schools, the project hopes to broaden its reach and engage with children from all backgrounds who have not always had access to sport. With the awareness-raising and training aspects of the project already under way, focus now turns to the action pillar.
A number of activities and programmes are planned, including:
- Organising the Mbo Mpenza Challenge, a national and international football tournament
- Developing an application to assess results and ensure continued support for participants
- Sponsoring children from disadvantaged areas to give them access to sport
- Running educational workshops on topics such as fighting discrimination, first aid and nutrition
- Educating young people through civics and French lessons and educational and sporting activities
Partners
