Help Active Youth Zimbabwe by Footballs, Netballs and goal posts for Community Youth
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Sports & Recreation items
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Sports equipment
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Help Active Youth Zimbabwe by Footballs, Netballs and goal posts for Community Youth
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Sport can be a powerful tool to engage communities and prevent crime, violence and potentially drug use among youth. In the context of the 64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, international experts gathered virtually during a side event to discuss what the evidence says about the role of sport in supporting youth to prevent drug use and address related risk and protective factors. Sport, and physical activity more broadly, can also be effective in promoting wellbeing and health, including mental health and reducing the risk of depression, as well as improve the cognitive functions and academic outcomes of young people and adolescents. Quality physical education that embraces sport values can also be used to help children and young people acquire the cognitive, social and emotional skills they need to lead a healthy lifestyle and promote safe development. Nevertheless, in reference to substance use, research to date shows that sport participation can have both positive and negative impacts depending on the type of sport, sport-specific environments and structures, as well as competition levels. While participation in professional and competitive sport may have a negative impact on substance use – for instance, in relation to doping – grassroots sport and sport-based interventions, which have broader social development objectives beyond the practice of sport, have strong potential to promote positive youth development and build youth resilience to substance use when based on science. Among the latter, there are programmes which, in their use of sport as a tool to deliver non-sport outcomes, including skills development, youth empowerment and participation, show promising results, a number of which have been articulated in the UNODC WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention. As such Active Youth Zimbabwe own a 16705 square meters land where a piece of it seek to establish a sports field in order to keep young busy with sports activities. Active Youth Zimbabwe seek for 5 footballs, 5 netballs, both football and netball goal posts and nets for the establishment of sports recreational center for youth community.
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