Many sports and recreation facilities in Zambia have been neglected and/or have been replaced with homes and drinking bars. This has left many children and youth with inadequate opportunities for positive recreation activities, leaving them exposed to risky sexual behaviour and drug and alcohol abuse. Sport In Action recognises the hindrance to Zambia’s social development that this poses and therefore spear-heads the renovation of numerous facilities.

Our largest project is in Kabwe at Twafwane Community School and Sport Academy. We plan to create a sports academy to run alongside the community school for vulnerable children and selected highly talented sport children and youth of Kabwe communities. This centre will act as the main Zambian centre for youth camps.

Children enjoy football on new surface on multi purpose court

		It will benefit the surrounding community through the many sports on offer and the healthy and leadership life skills that are learned through participation in sport. The sports complex will provide facilities for the following sports: athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, fencing, football, netball, swimming and volleyball.
Basketball played on renovated multi-purpose court at Fountain of Hope Street Kids Centre

We have also renovated basketball courts at Nkrumah College of Education in Kabwe, a multi-purpose (basketball, netball and volleyball) court at Fountain of Hope Street Kids Centre in Lusaka, a basketball court, baseball field (only on in Lusaka) and changing rooms at Munali High School and we are consultants to the National Olympic Committee of Zambia for the design of an Olympic Youth Development Centre, an International Olympic Committee pilot project.

Other works in the pipeline include the creation of a multi-purpose indoor sports and conference centre at Libala, the completion of a basketball court at Chongwe, the renovation of tennis courts, a basketball court, the school gym and the changing rooms at Kabulonga Girls High School, a children’s play park in Kabwata and a multi-purpose court at Kaunda Square in Lusaka. New basketball back boards and rims provided by Sport In Action and Durham University