PLANET SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (PSD) together with MAMBO BASKETBALL through Commission of children’s, youth and school development in Mwanza Regional Basketball Association (MRBA), has organized a Basketball camp for young Boys and Girls with age of U-18 in Mwanza City from different Secondary school for 4 days between 17-20 October 2011 at CCM Kirumba ground. The total of 81 participants attended the camp, 68 boys and 13 girls.
Program was officially opened by Hon. Highness Lema (Member of Parliament for Ilemela District ) accompanied by Basketball Patron for children and youth in Mwanza Regional (MRBA), Mr. Altaf Hirani Mansoor (MD – Mansoor Oil Industries Ltd) and officially closed by Mr. Musa K. Mziya, President of Tanzania Basketball Federation (TBF).
The aims of the program were,
•To discover, develop and promote youth basketball talents among the young generation in Mwanza.
•To educate participants (students) the importance of education through sports.
•To develop sports spirit in Mwanza City Secondary Schools
•To exchange skills with Mwanza basketball coaches in order to facilitate similar training in the near future.
•To examine basketball talents in schools for the developing of basketball game in Tanzania which is the quest of Basketball Federation in Tanzania (TBF).
To strengthen the cooperation in our organization (Mambo Basketball & Planet Social Development (PSD) so as to implement the intended goals as US Sports Program Alumni after our training journey in America in 2009 which was financed by America Embassy – Tanzania.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
1: Participants were empowered and learned the importance of education in order to be successful in sports as well as goals setting in everyday life activities.
2: Participants learned basics skills such us shooting, dribbling, passing, defense stance, marking a player with/without the ball and positioning during a basketball game.
3: Mwanza basketball Coaches and model players learned how to conduct a basketball camp. As the result Mambo basketball gave away 25 basketballs used in the camp to PSD as the primary tools to be able to conduct basketball camps on weekends following this camp.
4: The camp was advertised and the media played a big part in informing Tanzanian the progress and achievements. Participants and Coaches were interviewed too.
5: PSD and Mambo Basketball worked together as the US SPORTS PROGRAM alumni, to conduct another camp in June/July 2012.
6: We are currently working on organizing a two week Coaches/ PE teachers training in coaching deferent disciplines Basketball, volleyball , handball , netball and Swimming.
CHALLENGES:
1.To increase number of Girls Participants
•We are looking into organizing basketball camps for girls. PSD to work on starting the basketball league for girls.
2. Young players start playing basketball at 15/16 which is very late.
•PSD AND MWANZA BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION to work together on this by organizing primary schools games
3. Lack of standard basketball courts in Mwanza. Available courts locations doesn’t support easy movements of players to regularly attend training after school.
•We are current working on organizing training course to the Head of schools and PE/Sport teachers on preparing sports budget from their school capitation grants.
4. Size six and seven basketballs are not available in Mwanza.
5. Basketball coaches education is needed. Few coaches have attended coaches training.
6. Lack of sponsorship to facilitate long term basketball development programs.
THANKS:
We would like to thank the following for their support in running this camp:
•Mansoor Industries Ltd
• Gupta Autos Ltd
•Mr. Altaf Hirani Mansoor - Children's and youth Patron of MRBA.
•Hon Angelina Mabula – DC Muleba District.
•Mr. Musa K. Mziya – President of Tanzania Basketball Federation.
•Mwanza Regional Basketball Association (MRBA).
•School Administrations' in Mwanza City.
•Coaches
•Students.
2 Novemba, 2011
