How to put sport back at the center of the game?
Audio 48:30
MiLéDou, a Togolese and Ivorian program, using sport as an educational tool and vector of social cohesion.
© @ LYSD_Milédou
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 min
In the aftermath of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) final, let's ask ourselves about the place of sport in our societies as a development tool.
Publicity
From daily practice to television matches, sport is indeed omnipresent in our societies and often associated with the values of solidarity, respect, a taste for effort… Convening sport does not make it a development tool. however.
How to approach prevention, equality issues, education through sport?
With:
David Blough
, Author of
Sportwashing - What happened to the values of sport?
(Rue de l'Echiquier)
Former executive director of PLAY International, an NGO working with children through sports education.
Jean-Luc Agboyibo
, founder of
MiLéDou
, a program using sport as an educational tool and vector of social cohesion implemented in Togo and Côte d'Ivoire.
Responsible for partner relations within the
BAL (Basketball Africa League)
Richard Womagno
, basketball educator and trainer in Kpalimé, Togo within the
MiLéDou
program
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