Ubuntu sports festival concludes with focus to promote wildlife conservation

The second edition of Ubuntu sports festival was concluded on Sunday July 21st , 2024 at Nkumba University play- grounds with the major focus to promote wildlife conservation among young children. The festival attracted different school going children across the country with the aim of instilling knowledge among them regarding wildlife conservation through different sports disciplines.  Among the sports disciplines selected for  conservation drive include soccer, quadible, basketball, rugby, skipping and rabotics and recordings. 

Wayne Thompson, a physical education specialist said as sports people they deemed it necessary to teach children wildlife conservation through different sporting activities.

“We are using different sports to promote wildlife conservation. We have introduced children to different sports and if we keep giving them good coaching, they will have a chance of becoming good sports people in future,” said Wayne Thompson.

The Chief Executive officer Sports Uganda Ltd Uk, Andrew Byekwaso, revealed that they have managed to partner with different agencies including Uganda Wildlife Education conservation Center (UWEC) to engage young children in conservation drives and clean up exercises as a way of teaching them how to mitigate the prevailing climatic catastrophies.

“Cleaning drive is part of what we want to give the young people so as to mitigate dangerous climatic conditions. Skipping as a sport is one way of preventing cardiac diseases. Some non-communicable disease are preventable if we take pro-active measures seriously.

The Executive Director Score beyond leadership skills based in Adjumani, Ali Mavita, highlighted  that they intend to use variety of sporting activities to enable children learn about conservation and the value of sports.