Sport en Commun

Project supported by Visions Mêlées

Established in February 2018 by International Ivorian rugby player Sydney Djiropo, Visions Mêlées is a social and humanitarian association comprising stakeholders from the sporting world and from the private sector who share a love of the African continent and its values.

PROXI-SPORT-SANTE Project is an initiative for the treatment of traumas associated with the sporting practice and for sensitisation of the rural populations using a mobile facility that enables an innovative and cheap way of practising telemedicine, the main object being to democratise youngsters and vulnerable persons' access to health care, in partnership with local sports associations.

Context

Côte d’Ivoire’s rapid urbanisation and increasing population have further concentrated health facilities and professionals in the big cities, creating thereby actual shortages in the rural areas according to Visons Mêlées. The populations living in poorer places are faced with huge difficulties with having their diseases diagnosed and treated. As the vulnerable group, young athletes are the most exposed. They often suffer from (physical and mental) traumas likely to affect their well-being for lack of proper health care.

In this context, the association has, with its partners’ support, set up a technology for the transmission of clinical data to connect patients in remote places with physicians. The interventions also help to sensitise young athletes on workshops about such various topics as sport dietetics, the importance of nutrition but they also help to carry out first aid, diagnoses, primary prevention care or screening campaigns.

Objectives

Cutting down to a third the rate of premature deaths due to non transmissible diseases using prevention and treatment
Promoting mental health and well-being
Helping improve and protect the health of the population, as well as reduce social and territorial inequalities in sport and health
Developing a mobile solution for access to sport, to first aid and to education to health with rural communities between the cities of Abidjan and Grand Lahou

Activities

Purchasing and fitting up a mobile health container allowing for tele-consultation and the hiring and training of a first aid team
Public health, sport-health and first aid facilitation workshops
Carrying out consultations and teleconsultations by sport pitches at practice-time. Some diagnoses are made on the spot
Awareness raising workshops on several social or health issues: HIV/AIDS, a healthy diet, hygiene requirements, sexual health, teenage pregnancies, vaccination or again fighting against sex-based and sexist violence

Impacts

2,000 people (10-year-old and 30-year-old young females and males, the members of a sporting association or usual participants of a neighbourhood club) shall be the direct beneficiaries of this initiative
4,000 indirect beneficiaries, notably the families of the programme’s young beneficiaries, local associations and sport federations
60% of the outreach actions shall done in rural areas
Hiring and training a first aid team half of whom are women