THE SCHOOL: the most recent of Sport2build’s projects, the construction of an innovative school in Zambia associating lessons in the classrooms with sport, art, dance and manual activities to ensure children’s holistic development. The school will target, mainly but not exclusively, those children who are left behind by the formal school system: children with special needs and with learning difficulties enabling them to develop, learn, and grow in a safe, healthy and secure environment as well as all those children who drop out of school for any social and family circumstances.
NEVER GIVE UP – Running: the circuit made up of 5 cross-country races is an event organized twice per year. It gives the possibility to young athletes from 8 year old to take part in the races which become a moment of aggregation, competition, fun, with assured refreshments for all, at times the only meal of the day. Young athletes learn the discipline, consolidate self-esteem, develop a leaders’ attitude and team work.
NEVER GIVE UP – Football: football is the sport which more than any other unites and aggregates. In Africa in particular, when used with the right methodology, it can be a tool to foster participation and social inclusion, it teaches fundamental values like tolerance, cooperation and respect and at the same time the culture of effort and the ability to deal with both winning and losing. The football leagues involves 2,000 young boys and girls from 8 to 16 years.