What we do
TWENDE Hockey is a non-profit foundation, aiming at
improving the economic and social well-being of children and young adults, especially girls, in Tanzania by means of field hockey
The foundation seeks to achieve its goal by means of the following programs:
1. Youth Program
2. Coach & Trainer Program
3. Sport & Empowerment Program
Youth Program
Introducing field hockey among youngsters, especially girls.
We introduce field hockey at schools and communities. We organize field hockey clinics for schoolchildren and their sport instructors.
These clinics are being performed by our local and international trainers.
Sport works decriminalizing promotes a sense of belonging to a group, provides a healthy challenge and has proven to play a preventive role against juvenile delinquency.
Mastering a new sport is great, but it’s even more challenging to test yourself against other teams! Therefore, we organise various tournaments for schools and a real youngster competition.
Coach & Trainer Program
Training local coaches and accompany them along the way to become independent trainers.
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We educate local hockey trainers and coaches. We train them to become independent hockey trainers and so being able to organise attractive training sessions at their schools and communities.
We also educate the more experienced players to become hockey trainers so they can provide training to youth and young adults.
In 2017, the International Olympic Committee donated $30,000 to allow us to expand into other cities and to organize more courses for trainers and coaches.
Till today, we have trained coaches to not only run our programs but also their programs based on our model of approach.
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Sports & Empowerment Program
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Field Hockey as the means to a better and more valuable existence.
To the trainers that we educated, we offer the possibility to become (remunerated) trainer. By offering these jobs, we help young Tanzanians to improve their economic situation.
While unemployment rate in the urban areas tops 22,3%, over 800,000 young men and women enter the labor market every year!
We also promote social wellbeing and empowerment by means of workshops that we organise during the training-courses in collaboration with specialised Ngo’s like UN Women and Right to Play.
As an example, we celebrated, together with UN Woman, the international Women Day. The theme was “Step it up for gender equality”; we celebrated this day by organising hockey tournaments in which young girls and men (under 21 years) participated playing in mixed teams.
We focus especially on participation of girls; we support their search for control and a better life by offering the possibility to become trainer.
