“Sports for Health Education Conservation and Tourism”
Background
Sports, games & recreation benefit education (and whole populations) in profound and effective ways. They can impart life skills in a way that is unparalleled by any other single activity and are also popular and cost effective.
The following needs/opportunities exist and constitute a gap to be filled:
Community sport, games, traditional sports and games & recreational activity creates opportunity to identify raw talent in the most dormant areas of Uganda.
Mass Participation initiatives will be intended to mobilise communities into sports, games and recreation activity and affirming SportsUganda’s vision of building an active nation.
Overall the chief gain is to provide mainly young people who reside in the most dormant and rural areas with the opportunity to display their skills and allow national federations and talent scouts to have a broader picture of the amount of unknown/untapped talent in existence.
Promote and enhance healthy lifestyles through a new emphasis on Recreation Programmes. Active and regular recreational activities can assist in addressing social challenges that our society is confronted with i.e. unemployment, crime, alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence as well as education, conservation, tourism and health issues like diabetes, obesity, cardiac diseases & HIV/Aids.
SportsUganda Exists to drive Uganda into the competitive world of sports, games and recreation as a united and transformed sector.
It aims to:
Get as many Ugandan Citizens regularly accessing sports, games & recreation activities
Develop a transformed sports, games and recreation sector within the economy
Create an integrated system of enablers who support delivery of regular sports, games & recreation
Use sports, games and recreation as a mechanism supporting government priorities
Make sports, games & recreation delivery efficient, effective and profitable
It will do this by:
Helping frame a competitive and demographically representative sports, games & recreation programme which is based on the following values: equal opportunity, fairness, just actions, equitable resource sharing, empowerment & affirmation.
Note: Youth in Uganda are the youngest population in the world, with 77% of its population being under 30 years of age. ( "TheEffectsofaVeryYoungAgeStructureinUganda"(PDF).PopulationActionInternational.Retrieved 5/01/13.) The unemployment rate for young people ages 15–24 is 83%. (World Bank. 2008. African Development Indicators 2008/2009. Washington, DC: World Bank) http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/688342-1381200-ara4ho/index.html