Funfair for Healthy Community and Development
This project's parent organization is Centre for Sustainable Development and research
It operates in Sierra Leone
It uses Football (Soccer), Athletics, Indigenous games
Entered the Sport for Health Award
More about Funfair for Healthy Community and Development
Taking into account the CSDR’s Mission Statement “Promoting and building Healthy communities through Psychosocial activities for economic empowerment and peace”and with the focus on sport as a vehicle to deliver the messages of healthy communities and promotion of behavioral change, The project was developed as a tool to further government agenda for change in building a healthy nation and CSDR’s health programme /strategy.
The project is hinged on the the use of sport traditions and their inherent values as the backdrop for the CSDR’s values-based teaching and learning opportunities. The project integrates sport and physical activity within a cultural and educational framework, and is in line with the United Nations General Assembly declaration of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD – 2005-2014).
The unique potentialof the project originating from the practice of sport has been repeatedly recognized in Sierra Leone during the war and post war development initiatives solutions to use the power of sport, its ability to initiate intercultural dialogue, its national reach, its effect on the sporting community and beyond represent an area to enhance equality, obtain personal freedom and a means for development. The objectives of the project is to increase community knowledge in Sierra Rutile Mining chiefdoms, Southern Sierra Leone about their understanding of HIVAIDS and Tuberculosis and how to protect themsleves, and the ability of people living with HIV/AIDS and TB to speak openly and freely with others, to reducing the stigmatization and to increase community's awareness of available HIV/TB community services