Location and general information
Access to Sport - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal developmentContext
Every week, 35,000 teens explore tech and design skills at TUMO centres across Armenia. To balance screentime with healthy playtime, TUMO launched TUMO Sports in 2015. Since then, 400 teens aged 12 to 18 in Yerevan train weekly in basketball and football. Enthusiasm is soaring, with 500+ kids on the waiting list and growing interest in other regions.
Football, in particular, is rapidly gaining in popularity among young Armenians. The Football Federation of Armenia aims to engage 80,000+ children and adults in football training in the coming years, but infrastructure investments, coaching quality, and demographics are uneven across the regions. To complement the federation’s network of facilities, TUMO Sports will open a natural grass football pitch and sports hub in Gyumri for hundreds of young people, many of whom are displaced and disadvantaged.
Project goals
- Boost young people’s interest in sport
- Train at least 200 children a week in football in Gyumri
- Expand the provision of training sessions in Yerevan and establish a network of hubs across Armenia
- Use sport to empower young people and complement the life skills and extracurricular education offered by TUMO learning centres
Project content
- Establish a sports hub in Gyumri
- Organise sports-based ‘learning labs’ with international experts that bridge tech, design, and sport
- Run regular tournaments
- Act as a community space for public use of the new football pitch
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