During the second semester of 2019, special work was done in the Mandjou area, which has 20,000 inhabitants, predominantly Muslim, with very few financial resources and a life expectancy of around 50 years.
Red Deporte program “Youth Empowerment through Football” exploits the potential of this sport to increase the ability to obtain a lasting employment, by vulnerable youth.
At the end of 2019, no one could foresee that an epidemic that attacked a town in China could lead to a global pandemic; whose infectious agent also has a very high capacity and rapid transmission properties.
During this year, 2020, Red Deporte y Cooperación celebrates 20 years. We want to honor this achievement in the best possible way, trying to multiply the wonderful effects that the sport is having on the children of Lusaka.
We have completed the first stage of dissemination and now we have to get all partners to work in the development of two beautiful components of this program.
On January 24 and 25, Red Deporte in collaboration with Universidad Europea de Madrid, have hosted the training sessions in the Easybasket methodology, aimed at basketball monitors, several of them, students of the University itself.