Sports Center
Uvi Sports Center
The Sports Center is intended to encourage children to take interest in physical activity.
The project can show that sport can be not only a hobby, but a career, a way of life. We are in process of building sports infrastructure for multi-purpose sports fields in the village of Mambo in the Usambara Mountains. It is to be a place equipped with modern sports equipment for the students of the Uvi Foundation for Education, allowing the development of talents and interest in various forms of activity.
In the region, many children do not have any knowledge about sports and the benefits of practicing them. Given the very low level of education in state schools, sports may be a way to pursue a career or a scholarship to a better school.
In the Mambo region, the lack of access to entertainment, games and activities makes young people more susceptible to early marriage out of boredom and lack of stimulation, which results in teenage pregnancies. Due to the lack of employment opportunities and personal development in the area, many boys and girls choose to go to a big city at a very young age, where they are exposed to alcohol, drugs, prostitution and gang membership.
The activities of the sports center will be closely connected with the meeting points in Mambo and Mtae and the tutoring program. Sports activities will be an additional motivation to learn, admission to the club will be conditional on participation in our educational programs, no truancy at school and good grades.