Key Objectives

The key objectives of the SportHealth program are to use sport and play as tools to enhance healthy child development and build individual and community capacity; to strengthen community partnerships and networks; to promote HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge, attitudes and practices; and to use the convening power of sport to support national health priorities around HIV/AIDS education and prevention. Specifically:

Healthy Child Development

Promotion of healthy development of children essential to the future of healthy communities and the re-building of civil society, on a local and global level.

Individual and Community Capacity Building

Promotion of healthy development of communities through a coaching-based approach that increases individual capacities and builds communities. This is accomplished through the implementation of a sport and games focused RTP modules, Live Safe, Play Safe (LSPS) and Red Ball Child Play (RBCP). Methodology for effective and sustainable implementation is through partnerships with local organizations

Social Mobilization to Reduce the Incidence of HIV/AIDS

The mobilization of communities around key health issues in a fun and social way through sport and play, in collaboration with national social mobilization strategies that focus on HIV/AIDS education and prevention.

Locations

SportHealth projects can be found in the following countries: Rwanda (Kigali), Sierra Leone (Freetown, Makeni), Ethiopia (Addis), Mozambique (Maputo), Zambia (Lusaka), and Mali (Bamako).