The MYSA Sports and Leadership Academy will this year start training youth coaches on how to use football coaching to convey lifesaving messages about HIV/AIDS to youth in our 16 working areas and beyond. The trainings will reach more than 960 community coaches with an objective of strengthening its activities on the field.
The trainings come’s scarcely two months after the youth leaders in MYSA were trained by tackle Africa instructors to use the technique that now standout to be the best in educating youth on life skills.
“We want to reach out to young people in the slums and other areas with the knowledge on life skills that is why we have a lot of emphasis on the trainings since they are touching mostly on HIV/AIDS which is one of the issues heartrending the communities we live in”. Joseph Jagero, Head of coaching
Tackle Africa is a UK based organization founded in 2002 with a goal of using football to reach out to youth in Africa and upsurge their knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS and empower them to live safe and healthy lives.
The academy has also line up a number of trainings which includes; training 640 referees on the laws of the game, first Aiders training and conducting refresher courses for more than 14 football coaches who their teams will represent MYSA in different youth exchange programmes in Tanzania, Holland and Norway.
The MYSA sports and leadership Academy was started way back in 2004 but not until 2008 after an injection of funding from Laureus Sport for Good Foundation that started actively rolling out its activities aiming to fortify its capacity to offer specialized training and consultantancy services regionally and globally.
Last year a new curriculum on Sports for Development was professionally developed and it will be the base for training activities by different institutions of higher learning and organizations. The academy is also involved in establishing initiatives in Southern Sudan, Tanzania, and Botswana amongst other countries that are based on sports for Development
