The 1st Summit of Education through Sport in Africa, which aims to place sport as an institutional necessity for emerging countries, kicked off Saturday in Rabat, in the presence of ministers, ambassadors and representatives of various organizations.
The event is held from April 3 to 6 by the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research and TIBU Maroc NGO, under the theme “Unlocking the potential of African youth through the power of sport.”
The summit is taking place simultaneously in Casablanca, Rabat, Dakhla, Laayoune, Dakar, Lusaka, Monrovia, Niamey and other African capitals.
The summit aims to foster transformational sustainability among all participants and stakeholders by unleashing energies, building the capacity of actors, accompanying agents of African change through sport and co-constructing effective advocacy.
Speaking on this occasion, Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research, Government Spokesman, Saaïd Amzazi noted that the education of the 21st century gives increasing importance to values and social skills to address the global challenges facing children, such as unemployment, inactivity, obesity and conflicts.
Sport has the power to provide a great universal framework for inclusion and learning of these skills through a playful approach and helps to fight against school dropout through a positive pedagogy, based on motivation, benevolence and friendliness, Amzazi added.
Sport is an educational tool which allows the transmission of values and contributes to the general training of the individual and his socialization, and thus opens wide territories of educational action and can instill values such as equity, teamwork, equality, discipline, inclusion, perseverance and respect, the minister stated.
For his part, Tibu Maroc founding president, Mohamed Amine Zariat said that the NGO works with the Ministry of National Education on employment, empowerment and education of youth through sport.
This summit, which will bring together 24,000 participants, will feature symposiums on various areas of education through sport, activities in neighborhoods and associations, as well as a tribute to individuals who have made a positive contribution in the areas of children, girls and youth, he said.
This summit aims to discuss the importance sport and ways to institutionalize it as a mechanism for individual and collective development.
According to the organizers, this first summit will bring together all national, regional and global actors involved in the promotion and development of sport as a lever for education, economic and social inclusion, equal opportunities and sustainable development.
Taking into account the current context, this summit will adopt a hybrid format by the implementation of a series of activities that will be held in person and others relayed through digital communication platforms configured for this purpose.
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