In Their Own Words

Breakthrough Chiparamba Sports Academy (BCSA) is a community sports program aimed at providing sports opportunities to young Zambians between 4 and 20 years of age. BCSA innovatively employs sport to foster resiliency in young people as they are engaged in sport and community development initiatives. BCSA’s vision is to grow and become a pioneer in the use of sport especially football for development at the grassroots level.

Our Partnership

BCSA representatives attended their first TackleAfrica training course in 2008. They now act as the host organisation in Lusaka supporting the planning of all courses in the capital city. Their participants are currently working through their level 2 qualification and hope to continue onto the Level 3 TackleAfrica Facilitator course.

In Their Own Words

NOWSPAR was founded after the realisation that the right to sport is one of the most disregarded rights; this affects women even more because of the gender realities we live in.  NOWSPAR’s values are equity, respect, excellence, empowerment, fair-play and dignity. They are concerned about all types of women and girls and their involvement ranging from Olympic medalists, children skipping rope and the elderly women playing board games.

Their core work is advocacy; they hold the leaders in and outside the sport sector to account for the commitments they’ve made to address gender inequality in and through sport. They engage with policy makers, academics and practitioners to ensure policies and programmes benefit women and girls.

Our Partnership

NOWSPAR began working with TackleAfrica in 2011. A selection of their sports coaches attended the TackleAfrica Level 1 and have since progressed onto their Level 2 qualification. They will hope to qualify as Level 3 TackleAfrica facilitators in the coming years.

In Their Own Words

The Kalim Sports Council (KSC) came to life in 2005 when a group of committed coaches from the compounds of Kalingalinga and Mtendere came together with the vision of educating young people—mainly about HIV/AIDS—through sport activities. The organisation believes in football’s capacity as a mobilising tool to create HIV/AIDS awareness.

The KSC also strives to guide and develop young people to become involved and motivated leaders of the community. Since its conception, over 6000 children have benefited from its daily sport activities, which involve 18 different teams from the surrounding area.

Our Partnership

TackleAfrica joined forces with Kalim Sports Council in 2008 and their coaches have been progressing through the TackleAfrica programme ever since. The participants will hope to qualify as TackleAfrica facilitators in the next 2 years.

In Their Own Words

Malalo means “Bridges” in the local language, which is a word that defines very well our scope. Their main objective is to use sport as a mean (bridge) to give young people the opportunity of being involved in a group and keep them away from ill vices while offering them a chance to have an education and play football.

MSF incorporates life skills messages into sports, to make the academy an arena for learning and individual development– especially in relation to poverty and HIV/AIDS. They believe that sport is a powerful vehicle for change

Our Partnership

TackleAfrica began working with Malalo in 2012. The first project took place in Chililabombwe on the Zambia/DRC border.

Kebby Shampongo, Founder & Chair Person.

“HIV brings out a lot of negative ideas. Traditionally it has been difficult to talk about HIV although people are slowly coming out. Training
courses like this have a positive impact as coaches can pass on the knowledge to children who can then share it with friends and family.

Thank you for this innovative way of tackling HIV, football is like food for us, we hope to have more people trained, the demand and desire is there.”

In Their Own Words

Sport In Action (SIA) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) whose purpose is to improve people’s quality of life through sport and recreational activities. Founded in 1998, SIA was the first Zambian sports NGO. With sport for development (the use of sport as a tool for social change) as its underlying principle, SIA positively impacts the lives of thousands of children throughout 24 districts in Zambia.

SIA staff and volunteers work with more than 160,000 children each week, many of whom come from challenging backgrounds. Through this work lives have been transformed due to knowledge enhancement in the area of healthy and life skills, behavioural change towards both family and peers and improvement in sporting abilities.

Our Partnership

TackleAfrica started working with Sport in Action in 2011. Their coaches have completed a number of TackleAfrica coaching courses and are currently working toward their Level 3 Facilitator qualification. They are also supporting Alive and Kicking’s 2013 Road Show in Central Province led by TackleAfrica.

In Their Own Words

The foundation has been involved in tackling issues like HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation, and child rights in underprivileged communities in Zambia. Using the “Sport in the Development Process” (SDP) approach, EduSport seek to foster community education, development and empowerment. The EduSport concept is based on this belief: that sport with a positive orientation, when integrated into the broader framework of human and social development goals and priorities, is a powerful vehicle for change.

Our Partnership

EduSport joined TackleAfrica’s Zambian programme in 2011. Their coaches continue to progress up TackleAfrica’s coaching ladder and in
2013 they participated in Alive & Kicking’s Road Show led by TackleAfrica.

In Their Own Words

Bauleni United Sports Academy uses recreational and sporting activities, primarily football, to encourage community awareness, social involvement and sustainable development. Bauleni also aims to achieve the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals in the areas of environmental sustainability, domestic abuse prevention and health education. Bauleni has worked in cooperation with local governmental schools to promote and improve their physical education and health programmes.

Our Partnership

BUSA have worked with TackleAfrica since 2008 and their coaches continue to progress well through the TackleAfrica programme. Since 2011 the BUSA coaches have progressed from their Level 1 to their Level 2 qualification.

In Their Own Words

Yes Tanzania are a Scottish based ‘capacity building’ NGO and registered charity that develops partnerships with existing community
sports organisations based in Tanzania to deliver sustainable projects and programmes for the benefit of some of the most disadvantaged young people in the world.

They were founded in 2010 with a shared passion and belief in the simple idea that participation in sport can empower young people. From this starting point of empowerment, young people are in a better position to live positive lives with positive outlooks and take positive actions

Our Partnership

YES Tanzania and TackleAfrica have worked together since 2012 and continue to run training courses and support coaches in Arusha.

In Their Own Words

Goal Ghana helps young people in poor areas receive attention, develop skills and most importantly have fun through football.

Our Partnership

The founders, Ben Carpenter and Ben Hayman, raise funds for local partners in Ghana including TackleAfrican’s partner, RAINS through a series of UK activities.   In the last 2 years, Goal Ghana teams playing in the Football Marathon have raised over £25,000 to support TackleAfrica, Goal Ghana and RAINS’ work in Ghana.

In Their Own Words

RAINS works with all members of local communities including men, women, girls and boys and development partners to improve the quality of life for vulnerable groups especially women, girls and the disabled by strengthening local structures to take local level actions to promote and ensure fairness.

Our Partnership

TackleAfrica first partnered with RAINS in January 2008 and since then have worked together to run regular training courses and football tournaments.