Construction of the Jays Sports Academy

Project supported by NeFCoRD

The New Life Foundation for Community Rural Development is a community organisation that was created in 2017 to improve the living conditions of people in Kasese through various programmes aimed at providing professional and entrepreneurial training, combating early marriage, raising awareness of HIV/AIDS, and educating and empowering girls.

NeFCoRD, through the Jays Sports Academy, wants to build a sport academy to bring young people and teenagers together in healthy activities.

Context

In Uganda, 40% of girls are married before their 18th birthday and one in 10 is married before the age of 15 as reported by Girls not brides (2017). According to UNICEF, Uganda has the sixteenth highest prevalence rate of child marriage in the world and the tenth highest absolute number of child brides globally. According to the survey conducted by NeFCoRD in August 2020 in Kasese district, Uganda, 1,005 adolescents have been impregnated during the lockdown.

It is in this context that NeFCoRD intends to create, the Jays Sports academy (JSA) in pursuing its zeal to transform the lives of the youth and adolescents in engaging them in various games such as football, basketball, athletics and other games.

Objectives

To create a community and sustainable academy in order to develop football, basketball, and athletics
To empower the youth with on hand vocational skills at the academy that will help them earn income for themselves through self-employment
To identify and develop sports talents in young people and give them a chance of making a career even away from the academy
To engage young people in physical and moral education with a view to reducing crime rate, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies as well as the fight against HIV/AIDS
To train young people in the sustainable management of bio-diversities and environmental protection
To build friendship ties with stakeholders as well as other sports-oriented entities

Activities

To create a community and sustainable academy in order to develop football,
To empower the youth with on hand vocational skills at the academy that will help them earn income for themselves through self-employment
To identify and develop sports talents in young people and give them a chance of making a career even away from the academy
To engage young people in physical and moral education with a view to reducing crime rate, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies as well as the fight against HIV/AIDS
To train young people in the sustainable management of bio-diversities and environmental protection
To build friendship ties with stakeholders as well as other sports-oriented entities

Impact

Trainees or junior and senior footballers are trained and equipped with basic material
The training activities will encourage the spirit of competition and especially self-challenge in all participants
The coming together of young people from all part of the country will foster friendship ties and encourage national integration that is indispensable in national unity and nation building
Reduction of teenage pregnancies and early marriages in Kasese district