Faith Oluwaremi
Faith Oluwaremi's Volunteer Zambia Sport 2023
Fundraising for Loughborough Students Rag
Story
Volunteer Zambia Sport is part of the Wallace Group (7 UK Universities) that aims to make a difference in the lives of young Zambian people by empowering and enriching communities, through the power of sport, leadership and education. Working with Sport in Action (The largest Zambian Sporting NGO), the voluntary student sport development officers help to deliver sport development programmes across Lusaka.
I am a big advocate of sport and the many roles it plays in our lives, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally and for many of these young people especially the girls the sports hubs are a chance for them to express themselves, learn something new and even make connections with others.
One of my favourite things about Volunteer Zambia is that it's not just aimed at teaching young people to play a sport for a couple of weeks and then leave but at training up leaders who can carry on leading the communities even in our absence.
