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Whereas in Europe or America sport is often taken for granted, it has a much greater meaning for Tanzanians. Often it is their only hobby. The opportunity to do sports in a club provides stability in life and helps the youth to forget about their daily problems. However, most of them don’t have the chance to train regularly in a team due to the lack of playing fields and organized clubs. This is why we support the systematic development of the most popular team sports in the country: Football, Volleyball, Basketball and Netball.
Our goal is to establish a sustainable sports infrastructure with sports clubs that are comparable to European or American ones: with several teams across different age groups and genders for each sport.
Together with the City Council and the regional sports federations we build sports grounds, initiate the founding/development of youth teams and provide them with balls as the most essential training equipment. We work together with all schools and clubs in Mwanza region. Furthermore we collaborate with the federations and regional school department to empower trainers/coaches to teach children their sports as well as important life skills.
out of 65 million Tanzanians
(2022, United Nations)
out of 193 countries
(2022, United Nations)
%
(2013, Global Post)
per woman
(2021, World Bank)
All districts in Mwanza are lacking quality sports grounds, while the limited existing spaces are in poor conditions: potholes, dirt mounds and puddles can be found everywhere. This is the driving force behind our goal to build sports centers and community centers, which can be used by schools in the morning and by clubs in the evening. Besides that local communities can use the grounds to hold festivals, cultural get-together or music concerts. Such a center costs around 90.000 Euros and will contain football pitches, along with basketball, netball, and volleyball courts.
Upon completion of these sports centers, neighbouring schools will share the grounds and clubs will get the playing fields as their home grounds when they create teams across different age groups and genders. Currently, most clubs only have senior men and U20 teams, so it’s important to establish youth and women teams as well. In this context our organizational support will ensure an efficient usage of the sports grounds. Our equipment donations will allow for quality, diverse trainings. Lastly, our coaching workshops will support both the sporting, and the personal development, of children and adolescents.
You can find more information about the clubs and the situation in each sport on our community pages:
* 100% of donations go into the charity work in Tanzania. Our European and American team members work unpaid, covering their own travel and living expenditures.
* We work according to local needs, not based on Western idealism.
* We partner with local municipalities and local sports associations.
* We carefully assess and monitor our approach to achieve sustainable progress in the city.
* We do not only want to talk about poverty-related problems which people face in Mwanza, but also about the happiness and solidarity that dominates their everyday life. The stories in our impressions section reflect this attitude. Throughout the time we spend in Mwanza, we learn how much people in Europe or America can learn from the Tanzanian culture, their attitude towards life and their understanding of happiness.
The UNICEF Convention on the Rights of Children states “the right to play” as a fundamental human right. Support us in giving more and more children, youth and young adults in Mwanza the chance to regularly play sports in organized clubs.
We are a combination of Tanzanian and International team members who have lived in Mwanza for our whole life, a few years, or several months. We have diverse experiences in development work and all share a common passion for sports and voluntary work.
The Sports Charity Mwanza is the result of a two-year pilot phase where we attempted several approaches. Since the beginning of the pilot stage in 2014, many young international volunteers and dedicated local sports ambassadors have joined our two founders, Rogasian and Jurgen.
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Read MoreThe first short movie shows our basketball volunteers during their daily work, when they give technical and organisational insights to the local coaches.
In our second short movie Janis and Mergim, two football volunteers, reflect their time in Mwanza. They talk about cultural differences, their work and personal learnings.
Our third short movie shows a typical day of two boys (12 and 17) who are still attending school and a jobless young female adult. All three are play football passionately.
Our 30-min documentary is about our first steps as Football Charity Mwanza. It combines the messages of the short movies and sets a special focus on giving girls access to sports.