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Anna is having a ball
I spent this evening with some of EduSport’s peer group leaders. The majority of EduSport’s work is carried out by these peer group leaders – who are simply young people from the underprivileged communities who have been trained by EduSport to coach a variety of sports and give life skills training to their peers.
The young people take their roles incredibly seriously, often giving up many hours a week to run activities in their communities – on an entirely voluntary basis.
At the same time, they are often juggling their education (both funding it and completing it) and family life (which more often than not involves them caring for orphaned cousins or younger brothers and sisters).
I have spent some time getting to know Kelvin and Moses – two peer group leaders from Kalingalinga – over the past couple of days. Kelvin is just 17, but has been a peer group leader since he was 12. Despite his young age, he is the leader all the other leaders throughout Lusaka, and indeed the whole of Zambia, look up to.
He has achieved an astonishing amount for his community over the past five years – so much so that he has now made numerous TV appearances and his work has been recognized by the Government’s Education Department.
The peer group leaders organized a couple of energizers towards the end of the evening. I have named the first one, “I have the ball” because it involved the leaders one by one playing with an invisible ball, while singing (with a great deal of energy and enthusiasm), “I have the ball”.
My description here will never do it justice – but maybe I can give you a demonstration when I get back home!
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