BMX FREESTYLE 237
Context
Urban sports are booming in Cameroon, with BMX and skateboarding attracting more and more people.
BMX, as a vehicle for learning and empowerment, could help to improve the social situation in the country, where the poverty rate has increased from 61% to 77% between 2015 and 2021 (Afrobarometer, 2021). This increase is notably led by the combinaison of the drop in world oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, the anglophone crisis in the country and the fight against terrorism (Afrobarometer, 2021).
Goals
- Develop the economic activity of the BMX Freestyle sector
- Develop women’s participation
- Train educational and sports supervisors
- Acquire mobile sports equipment
- Develop the discipline within the Cameroon Cycling Federation
Activities
- Training 10 young people to become sports instructors, to set up projects and to finance activities
- Construction of several mobile facilities for initiation and demonstration purposes
- BMX sessions (courses and workshops)
- Organisation of one demonstration per quarter in the district of Yaounde
Targeted impacts / Results
- 10 sports instructors qualified to work with schoolchildren
- Acquisition of a mobile fleet of equipment suitable for introductive sessions and demonstrations
- Skills upgrading for 100 participants in the sessions
- 2 to 4 classes introduced to BMX
- 3 to 4 demonstrations to people from disadvantaged backgrounds