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STOP POVERTY CUP AT MKINGA

 MKINGA FOOTBALL LEGUE ARTICLE

INTRODUCTION

YPM Tanzania in collaboration with other stakeholders in the community on last 28th & 29th October 2016 were at Mkinga district at Duga Maforoni ward almost 8km to Horohoro border, the border between Tanzania and Kenya in Tanga region.YPM initiated the football league which titled as STOP POVERT CUP, enhancing stop poverty campaign to community around Mkinga. The league took almost two months which are October and November.Actually, registered teams were 17 and among those it was only 11teams which confirmed to participate, whereby nine teams were from Tanzania and two teams from Kenya .Also the league offiaciated by Mkinga District Community Development Officer honourable Mr.Mfuko.

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Horohoro & Duga Maforoni in the final

On 3rd was the final stage and the final match played with famous teams which are  Horohoro Stars F.C vs Duga Maforoni F.C. Those two teams are very famous  teams in Mkinga district the thing which made funs to pay tention for the final match.It was a great match which attracted and motivate more funs. A big number of people attended final that final match including leaders from both two country i.e Tanzania & Kenya. However there were entertaiments provided by YPM Art Group such as plays, songs and drama which based on giving knowledge concerning VICOBA groups as part of Stop Poverty campaign and also there was a football match for U16 boys from Kenya and Tanzania. The champion was Hororo Stars who won 2-1 over Duga Maforoni F.C in normal time.The major campaign of that league as it was titled was to provide knowledge about how to fight against poverty through joining in VICOBA groups as a means on how to minimize even not to eradicate poverty in the community.

The prizes provided on this event was as follows;

1-Tsh.250,000/- + One set of Jersey + Two balls.

2-Tsh.150,000/- + Two balls

3-Tsh.100,000/- + Two balls.

Also there were gifts provided to individuals like best goal keeping player who provided with Tsh.20,000/- and best goals scorer who provided with Tsh.20,000/-.

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The guest of honor and stakeholders of football Mkinga district already been planning to hand over gifts

 MAIN GOALS/OBJECTIVES.

 

  • To groom and promote youths by giving them opportunity to show their talents.
  • Providing employment opportunities through sports activities.
  • Creating unity, friendship and cooperation among people in the society.
  • Fighting against HIV/AIDS and Drugs.
  • Gathering young people and educate them on how to fight against poverty and advise them to join VICOBA groups.

 

SUCCESS

  • Introduce YPM organization and its activities to the community.
  • YPM and its movement has been known beyond the border of Tanzania through the participation of team from Kenya in this league.
  • Created partnerships between government officials between these two countries i.e Kenya & Tanzania at councils level.
  • Helping people especially youth to avoid idle groups.
  • Improvement of people healthy.

CHALLENGES

  • In adequate facilities.
  • Lack of professional coaches.
  • Poor knowledge about laws of the game from coaches & funs which results on rejecting referees and match commissioners especially funs from Duga Maforoni team.
  • Lack of public services like toilets, birth rooms and changing rooms around the ground/stadium but director spoke to government officials hope this will be solved
  • Lack of other sponsors to share running costs of the league.
  • Poor cooperation from the media to cover the event.

 

CONCLUSION.

Sports and games is party and percel of human LIFE and viceversa thus why it has been said that “you can’t neglect sports activities from human life. Sports can brought happiness, minimize stress, maintain healthy, promote peace among people in the community. Through sports you can minimize and eradicate poverty by sending messages to many people during the competition through serminal and workshops about entrepreneurship o as to help people to be employed and to finally to employ others.In general sports issues are very important to humans life and it is the point where YPM includes the Sports and Games for Development in its programs on his stop poverty campaigns.

 

 

 

 

 

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EAST AFRICA CUP AT MOSHI-KILIMANJARO

In the end of June, YPM sent 22 young people to participate in the Festival of East Africa cup held at Moshi – Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The festivals took part between 28th June and 03rd July 2016.
Among the group, ten are in arts group and 12 are in the under 16 boys’ football team. This time, once again we did not manage to send the girls team. They still need to train more and get local competition to stand for the bigger events. In general the motivation for girls’ football teams is in need of boosting. Historically this is the third year since YPM begun to participate in this East African Cup festival. The participation has always been a big gist to our youth; it has helped young people learn through various seminars offered throughout the week of the festival.
Through this participation, YPM team has managed to show that they are not only for participation but more also to compete in a peaceful spirit of building a network of peace supporters. The team managed this year once again to reach the quarter finals. This is a great success as compared to the first year when we were defeated in early stages. Like last year, we managed to send a team of younger but high spirited youths. They have shown that we can compete, we can challenge one another and while doing so keep peace in the number one agenda of our activities, sports and programs. This is possible among our circles but even more a phenomenon that can be applied in international negotiation cycles as well as business rounds.
YPM arts group is a group that provides education through theater performance. They use art to warn, teach, encourage and entertain. They managed this time to teach on the effects of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Though not a direct theme in YPM, but in the sense of being the voice of many who suffer through such practices they managed to send in a point of rights for young girls wherever they are and in whatever part of the country or part of the world.
On 30 YPM that was when the arts group to got chance to perform. Different to other groups that were having traditional songs, YPM arts group made a play which was also having traditional songs to color the message presented. It was such an attractive, entertaining and educative performance that left many with need to get to know more of YPM.
In this festival there were various seminars in which young people got chance to be highlighted and learning new things. In the seminars the following were given the priority for this festival:-
1. Stop Poverty
2. Leadership
3. Law of the game
4. Coaching
5. WASH
Also there was the training of media in which John Kunguru represented YPM. He managed to share and learn on
1. Filming
2. Animation
3. Cartoon
Despite some challenges that were promised to be addressed as we go on, the festival was a wonderful platform to share talents, to learn and to educate one another. Keep Alive East African Cup. YPM on behalf of the host committee and the sponsors would like to congratulate all the young people who were involved and give honor to represent different Organizations; congratulate those who kept high the standards of good discipline and for the great work they are doing.