Sport changing young people's lives in Pakistan

Youth Sport Trust International was back in Karachi, Pakistan in June to deliver further training to upskill practitioners to become ‘Master Trainers’ themselves. Our expert trainers worked with a group of 17 teachers who had been identified from prior training as having the necessary knowledge, interest and motivation to be able to implement high quality Physical Education Training to other teachers in schools.

This ‘train the trainer’ model is proving highly effective in building an in-country cadre of Master Trainers and thereby ensuring that the initial Physical Education and sport competition pilot delivered by Youth Sport Trust International in 2019 can become sustainable and be rolled out more widely.  The focus of the course was on:

• Developing trainer skills and competencies
• Understanding fundamental movement and games’ skills
• Understanding Physical Education
• Alignment with the Pakistan curriculum
• Developing progression in Physical Education

All participants gave positive feedback about the training

• Trainers set clear objectives and expectations
• Flow of the training content was clear
• Complex topics were broken into manageable chunks
• Training was interactive and engaging
• The course was delivered at a pace appropriate to my needs

Although Youth Sport Trust International will continue to provide ongoing guidance, we are delighted that there is now an upskilled workforce in Karachi to ensure thousands of children are receiving high quality Physical Education lessons.  This would not have been possible without generous donations and we are most grateful for your support.  THANK YOU.

Thousands of children in deprived areas of Karachi are now playing cricket, Pakistan’s most popular sport, and benefitting from weekly physical activity sessions.  This is as a result of the physical education and sport programme created by Youth Sport Trust International in November 2021with support from the Rangoonwala Foundation. We now need to reach thousands more and to do that Youth Sport Trust International needs to train more teachers to coach cricket and deliver high quality physical education lessons, creating a fun, learning environment for their students.  That’s why our lead trainer is back in Karachi this June to train more teachers. This practical training is based on learning through doing and has proved popular with teachers.

‘When you move you are are being healthy and cricket is a healthy game.  I want to learn new games and activities because we need to teach the children skills so that they can play and be happy.’

Feedback from a course participant.

Importantly she will also be providing follow on training for a group of teachers who took part in the pilot phases of the programme and were identified as having the necessary skills to progress to a more advanced level.  They will be upskilled to become expert National Trainers who can then take the lead themselves in delivering training to more and more teachers and practitioners to ensure wider reach and sustainability of the programme thereby providing more opportunities for more children to play and compete in cricket.

Our ultimate aim is to take the programme across Pakistan and we are most grateful for your ongoing support.  THANK YOU