This week 24th June 2024, Local Youth Corner Cameroon presented the side activities for the upcoming NAWEWE Sports Jamboree. These activities represent the core alues of the Jamboree. These side activities cut across different fields with the aim to empower and promote social cohesion within the community of Bafoussam among DPs (Displaced Persons) and host communities to drive positive change. These activities will serve as a platform for LOYOC’s partners and participants to offer and benefit from each themed activity.
The activities comprize of;
Free health consultation, screening, surgery and referrals,
Donation of food and basic amenities,
Electoral registration campaign,
Tree planting, clean up campaigns,
Peer to peer dialogues, camping and a peace walk.
These activities will engage athletes, partners and a wide range of participants.
About the NAWEWE Sports Jamboree
The NA-WE-WE Sports Jamboree is an annual summer holiday youth-led community initiative since 2022 that aims at using sports and recreational activities as a vehicle to foster social cohesion, moral, civic, and entrepreneurial rearmament as well as healthy living between and among displaced persons and host communities. This jamboree is youth-focused (15-35) and adopts an innovative sports approach inspired by global sports for peace and development tools that focuses on using sports to bring people from different walks of life to play, dialogue and build relationships; raise awareness while providing basic amenities to communities as well as inculcate core moral, civic and entrepreneurial values the athletes and spectators
The 2nd Edition was officiated by H.E. the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education. We reached 5000 DPs; mobilized 500 athletes; over 100,000 people engaged physically; and over 3000,000 people through media engagements.
WHY SPORTS?
Historically, Sports has proven to be a uniting force for Cameroonians despite the socio-cultural differences. Sports and recreational activities remain one of the most innovative ways to bring people together to dialogue, share ideas and work together. The choice of Bafoussam was informed by the need to respond to the growing influx of young men women and children into the western region of the country who have been forcefully displaced by armed conflict in the North West and South West regions. There is thus the critical need to create a safe and innovative space for these diverse communities to dialogue and find common ground toward sustaining a safe, secure and prosperous community.
To respond to these challenges, Local Youth Corner Cameroon and her partners have adopted sports and recreational activities as key tools to provide safe spaces for dialogue, peer-to-peer learning and critical thinking, youth leadership, social cohesion, influence attitude and life skills. This Jamboree will promote civic, moral and entrepreneurial rearmament of young people which will ensure resilience and wellbeing. Physical and mental exercise is a healing process that affects attitude, self-esteem, skills and behaviors. This healing process helps to prevent high-risk social behaviors, meets the existing demands and helps to achieve the physical, mental and social well-being of the entire community.
This year, the Jamboree is slated to begin on the 6th of July 2024 at the Lycee Classique de Bafoussam and will run until the 24th of August 2024. Participants can expect a wide range of sports competitions, team-building exercises, and cultural events throughout the duration of the jamboree. It is an opportunity for Displaced Persons and Host Community members to come together, learn from one another, and celebrate diversity in a spirit of unity and peace.
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