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International Inspiration Project

1m children to benefit from quality sports by 2012

Staff Correspondent
One million children of the country would be benefited from quality sports activities by 2012 under a project titled International Inspiration.
International Inspiration, a project that'forms parts of the legacy programme of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, was formally launched at a city hotel yesterday.
A memorandum of understanding fMoU) was also signed between the Bangladesh government and the United Kingdom (UK) and Northern Ireland at the programme to this end.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, State Minister for Youth and Sports Ahad Ali Sarker and British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Stephan Evans were present at the launching ceremony.
The project implemented joindy by British Council, UK Sports and Unicef with the ministries of youth and sports; education; and women and children affairs aims to deliver oh the promise made by’thd London 2012 Olympic bid team in Singapore to inspire young
people around the world through the power of sports.
It aims at creating sustainable structures and systems in 20 countries, enabling at least 12 million young people to access sport and improving their lives, said the organisers.
Giving an overview of the project, British Council Bangladesh Director Charles Nuttal said as part of the initiation of the project, 41 UK secondaryschoolteachers are now visiting their 20 partner schools for a week in Bangladesh under the international school link programme.
The teachers will be travelling to different government schools and madrasas, selected by a national steering committee under the leadership of the secretary of youth and sports ministry, to share their ideas, he added.
Training courses on youth sports leadership and young leaders are also being delivered this week to eight local tutors and 32 young people from four schools, he said, adding that the young leaders will organise a festival at Women’s Sports Complex at Dhanmondi in the city today to showcase the valuable sports initiatives they
have experienced.
He also said the remaining 16 Bangladeshi schools will also be benefited from youth sports leadership training through which they will eventually reach 100,000 young children in their schools and communities.
Through the project, 200,000 children aged between four and 10 will learn swimming and 12,500 adolescents will be trained as leaders to carry out sports activities for their peers in their communities, he informed.
Charles Nuttal also said, “Through the sports activities, awareness will be created on major issues which adolescents are facing such a early marriage, dowry, HIV and AIDS, hygiene, abuse and exploitation."
Nahid said the project will contribute to building a stronger relationship between two countries and will help strengthen the education system as well.
Stephan Evans, Ahad Ali Sarker, Unicef Country Representative Carel de Rooy and Woifneh 'and Children Affairs Secretary Rokeya Sultana also spoke.