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THE National Head of Secondary School Heads yesterday received a donation of sport equipment as part of a partnership entered with Summit Care Trust.
This will see the Trust co-ordinating the dissemination of basic information on sexual reproductive health and life skills to schoolchildren through arts, sports and culture activities.
The volleyballs, footballs and netballs were sourced from CBZ Bank and handed over at a ceremony at Prince Edward School in Harare yesterday.
The memorandum of understanding will see Summit Care Trust playing a pivotal role in addressing the prevailing sexual reproductive health challenges faced by young people in schools with emphasis on Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS.
Summit Care Trust is an organisation established to create platforms for young people, especially those in schools, to contribute towards national development.
The trust, through their SportAIDS Project, works with young people in school using sport as a vehicle to conduct Sexual Health Reproductive awareness. The project runs a number of sporting disciplines — soccer, volleyball, netball, athletics, softball, handball, rugby, cricket, basketball, tennis and swimming.
Summit Care Trust representative Marvellous Mapininga said this was a milestone development for them.
“We are happy as an organisation to be partnering with NASH in bringing sexual reproductive health and life skills programme to young people of this country.
“SportAIDS Project seeks to ride on NASH’s comprehensive curricular that covers education, sport for development, HIV and AIDS education, promotion of arts, culture, traditional dances, debates and quiz to name but a few.”
The NASH Harare Province Chairperson, Jephias Runesu, said their partnership with Summit Care Trust will go a long way in educating and bringing awareness of reproductive sexual health and life skills programme to young people.
“We are indebted to Summit Care Trust and CBZ for coming on board to complementing our efforts of spreading information about HIV and AIDS to our youngsters who need education.
“Our new curriculum next year touches on those issues and when they go out for sports, they will also get more information about HIV and AIDS.
“Some successes recorded so far include abstinence through behaviour change and reduction in school pregnancies as noted in the province.
“We are using sport to spread information about HIV and AIDS and other diseases with the aim of reducing new infections”.
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