Community Reintergration (CoRe)
This project's parent organization is Hockey Association of Malawi
It operates in Malawi
It uses Hockey, Netball, Netball
Entered the Sport Federation or Governing Body of the Year
More about Community Reintergration (CoRe)
The project aims at reducing the impact of social exclusion towards young people involved in crime, prostitution, drug and alcohol abuse through hockey in order to facilitate positive social change and transformation hence reintegrate them into community.
Hockey as a sport has for so long been regarded as a minority sport in Malawi. However, the past fifteen years has steadily grown into the sport that so many young people would want to associate with hence attracted the attention of even those young people that thought hockey was a sport for the few elite. We capitalized from this fact that hockey was now getting more popular among many youths from under privileged communities and strategically used it as a tool for mobilizing and systematically withdrawing young girls in prostitution and boys who are into drugs and alcohol abuse.
We are using hockey as an advocacy and awareness strategy on social inclusion hence a platform for cultivating behavior change among young people identified and the targeted communities. Currently, the targeted communities records high levels of unemployment, increased youth prostitution, drug and alcohol abuse and increased levels of crime perpetrated