Background
The aim of the project is to support Sport in Action to upskill and educate coaches, this empowers local coaches and volunteers to deliver quality and sustainable sessions across Lusaka.
Each summer the 7 universities of the Wallace Group collaborate to send students and staff members out to Zambia for 8 weeks, from the period of June-October. Working with Sport in Action, the student and staff volunteers collaborate with the in-country Zambian colleagues to deliver embedded and sustainable opportunities for young people across Zambia, particularly women and girls. Students will support Sport in Action to deliver a series of accredited coaching workshops, that are recognised by Zambian governing bodies of sport.
The focus is sport development. This includes, increasing capacity, supporting the development talent pathways, and developing coaching and facilitation practices in the key sports of, netball, basketball & women’s football. This is done by working collaboratively with Zambian colleagues. The emphasis is on the above-mentioned areas so that with better sport facilitation, more coherent pathways and higher capacity, more vulnerable individuals will have the ability to access life changing interventions through Sport in Action
Role Description
Dates
Student volunteers from across the Wallace Group team up and are split into two groups, with each group spending 8 weeks on placement at the various hub-sites around the capital from June-October.
Students from St Andrews will travel in group 1:
4th June – 30th July