21:40 09.11.2008 | All news from "AIDS/HIV"

Tanzania: NGO Conducts Sports Seminars in Serengeti

A non-governmental organisation (Right to Play), is building capacity of kindergarten teachers here to teach sports in schools.

The NGO has organised training seminars for the pre-school teachers in Mugumu, Ikoma, Issenye, Kyambahi and Natta wards in Serengeti district.

Supervisor of the training programme in Kyambahi and Ikoma wards Denis Sankaire said the NGO had also promised to donate sports gear to ensure training sessions succeeds in the wards.

The training which evolves coaching and first aid, is also used to deliver HIV/Aids control, peace and cooperation messages amongst the participants, he said.

The objective of the programme, according to the Right to Play sports coordinator Jumanne Msami, is to groom children to excel in sports.

The programme engages children between the age of two and five years, with the objective of making children to become good citizens during their adulthood.

Msami said a special sports curriculum for kindergartens would be designed for the training sessions.

Right to Play is also building the capacity of secondary school students to avoid contracting HIV through sports under a programme dubbed as 'Ishi Salama, Cheza Salama' or live and play safely.



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