By Peter Ngwane | Country Director
In 2024, the Open Field Cameroon team engaged over 1,200 physically challenged youths in the City of Kumba and its surrounding environs. Participants learned more about educative skills in Business management, Entrepreneurship, Social inclusion and have received psycho social support for better mental health from the local team and partners in Kumba. This project happened alongside our traditional Sport-Based Youth Development Programs which engaged hundreds more, as you read about in our reporting last year (Boys and Girls Tournaments).
These new activities for a relatively new target population and marginalized community were connected to the Football for Community Resilience and Social Inclusion Project (F4CorSol) sponsored by FIFA Football Community Program 2024. This project is engaging football as a sustainable platform to promote quality education, reduce inequalities and social discrimination and stigmatization by providing equal opportunities to all youths on our program by bridging the gap.
The F4CorSol project has impacted the livelihood of over so many physically challenged persons using the game of football in the City of Kumba. Through the weekly football games, participants engaged in positive development activities on and off the football fields - in neighborhoods across the Municipality. Then activities were spiced with capacity building workshops on Entrepreneurship, Basic Project Writing, Business plan Development and Business management techniques. The results of these activities means positive impact on the livelihoods of 98% of these participants who are now capacitated with skills in the aforementioned areas.
The euphoria generated has seen a 100% increase in self-confidence and social inclusivity of participants fortified. The zeal to engage in business generated activities has been fully activated and the physically challenged persons are now more than ever before poised to become self-sufficient and committed in using their skills to engage into petty business activities for income generation. We are thrilled for the participants and their families and look forward to the next chapter in the growth of their personal and prospertiy towards success however they define it.
That is the power of football!
By Nenne Ekoi | Girls Program Director
By Divine Kowa | Cameroon Communications Manager
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