As part of SOS Children’s town cooperation with NFF, a football instructor’s course in Zambia was held from 5 – 17 August 2008. The course activities were financed through an agreement with NORAD.
28/08/2008 :: In august three instructors came to Zambia to hold football instructors course in Kitwe. Participants were from SOS employs in the children’s town and employees in the SOS family programme. The course is part of cooperation with NFF which started in 2005.
The purpose is to train local football instructors. The trained instructors will hold courses for SOS in the new Children’s town in Livingstone. It will be opened on 07 October 2008.
The course which was arranged in Kitwe is a follow-up of a course which was held last summer. As a result of the previous course, the children and the employees in the children’s town in Kitwe made a football ground. The football ground is now completed and is used by the children.
The purpose of the instructor’s courses is to use football as a method to development related activities with children. This is done through training local instructors who work with children in the children’s town and the SOS family programme.
Facts about children’s town:
The building in Livingstone, Zambia, provides:
• 150 orphaned children a new home
• SOS kindergarten for 90 children
• SOS-School for 360 pupils
• the SOS social centre for 1400 HIV/AIDS infected children and their families. In addition there is a SOS-medicine centre which will cater for 10 000 patients yearly. In addition NFF will offer courses to develop coaches, leaders, referees from the children’s town surrounding community in sports for the handicapped.
Facts about NFF:
Norges Fotballforbund has a membership of 1822 clubs, over 25 000 teams and 400,000 players. About 100,000 of these are women and girls. NFF is the largest Society for football.