Benefits of Sports and Wellness
- The benefit of sports and wellness cannot be emphasized enough in life, but even more so in impoverished communities. It is well known that soccer is a sport that unites communities and has undoubtedly emancipated millions of children and adults from embarking on dangerous activities such as crime and drugs, more so in communities with socio-economic challenges.
- At Booth Africa, we use football as not only a mechanism to promote fitness and enhance technical football skills development, but to educate children about socio-economic issues that they are directly affected by in their communities.
- It also highlights the necessity of promoting social integration between townships and urban areas through the integration of schools in townships/ rural areas and urban areas,
What The Programme comprises of
- The Programme comprises of a number of Educational Football Clinic Activations that are structured and packaged for execution in various Communities to be determined by the Corporates with whom we partner with. Educational Football Clinic Activations are intentionally curated to bring education (life skills) and sports together.
- The Sports component is made up of a technical football skills development component. Coaches conduct a “festival” setup (skills and exercise stations on a rotational basis) allowing the children to experience a professional session, with an opportunity to learn a variety of different skill sets.
- The objective of the educational piece is to use the opportunity to Educate and make a tangible impact on the children about matters affecting them and their communities. Booth Africa has a pool of Life Skills NPO’s that are brought on board to tackle various topics which are relevant to the community, at each Football Clinic Activation. Each Life Skills component has interactive breakaway sessions that enable the children to work on practical examples, facilitated by coaches and Life skills Officers. Additionally, the importance of health and fitness is emphasized to bring about awareness and to promote a life-long culture of healthy bodies and healthy minds.
- We ensure the provision of all equipment and corporate-branded full soccer kits so that all the kids are fully provided for.
We are unique
- What makes our soccer programme unique is the involvement of former professional football players (Legends) whose role is not only to interact with the kids, but coach and facilitate the sessions. They are well known for representing national soccer teams, have a wealth of skill to impart and with whom communities certainly resonate.
- We work with kids aged between 6 and 18, both boys’ and girls’ teams.
- There is a dire need to uplift communities through the implementation of socio-economic advancement programmes that are sustainable and impactful.
