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DROVES of athletes are expected to descend on Mutare when the 2014 edition of the provincial Youth Education through Sport (YES) games get underway today (Friday).
The two-day event comes to an end tomorrow.
Sports and Recreation Commission Manicaland co-ordinator Shupikai Berejena confirmed that the province will be hosting the YES 2014 provincial games starting today.
“We will host the 2014 provincial Youth Education through Sport festival on November 15 (today) and 16. We sincerely hope that the event will be able to achieve the desired goal of promoting sport among the youth as well as impart important entrepreneurial and life skills.
Participants are set to compete for top honours in sporting disciplines that include soccer, netball and volleyball.
The YES games are the brainchild of SRC and are meant to give youths aged between 10 and 17 an opportunity to partake in sporting activities to enhance skills development.
Apart from the sports skills development component, the YES games are also aimed at imparting peer education to youths in the face of HIV and Aids as well as enhance youth participation in community development projects.
“Success of a club at the YES games is measured against its ability to excel in sporting activities, the club’s capacity or ability to impart peer education and participation in community development projects.
“All these are key areas that we judge when we come up with the overall winner,” he said.
The national YES games are usually staged the first week of every December when they coincide with the national tree planting day, but the event has been pushed forward and also limited to provincial level in order to afford the chance for participants to also take part in the African Union Youth Games set for December in Bulawayo.
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Moffat Mungazi