CSBG association

I am applying at this Prize because I consider myself as a problem-solver : I want to set up impactful activities to respond Africa's challenges. If I am selected as a winner, I will use the funding to extend our activities (that are currently intended for school dropouts) to street children in Senegal. I want to end their suffering and to provide them same chances than other children to have a brillant future with education, health care, professional opportunities...

I am a Senegalese living and working in a NGO in Paris. I want to go back in Senegal and participate in the country's development.

I participate in social activities since middle school (environment, HIV, leadership...) and I helped in lot of projects.

I always wanted to have positive impact on communities and I started my work with youth and children.

I am co-founder of the CSBG that is working well with our Koras Center : a training and professional integration center combining school and sports program for young Senegalese. We use the sport to attract young school dropouts and we send them back to school and provide them professional opportunities (other than sport).

I want to go back in Senegal and extend activites to street children who also need our help in education, health care, professional opportunities...

I want this organisation to be a reference in social and professional reintegretion of marginalized youth.

Each year, in Senegal, several youth drop out of school. 37% of school-age children are outside the education system (study by the Government of Senegal and USAID in December 2017). This dropout is due to several factors: failure, family poverty, socio-cultural beliefs, etc.

Many of these young people are then involved in delinquency : thief, mugger...
At Koras Center, we welcome in a family concept these young people in distress and we train them in Football which is the discipline we use to restore confidence to them, to provide them with social cohesion, protection and professional integration opportunities.

We send them back to school in partner establishments. Educators in the centers help them with their homework and also teach them good manners, social behaviour...

When they come at the center, these young people believe that football is their only hope to success in life. But thanks to school reintegration and vocational training (catering, hairdressing, gardening, etc.), they open up to other opportunities and have more confidence in their future.

In addition, sports championships are organized to assess skills and place the best in national or international clubs.

Our work is unique because first of all, the mix is in itself innovative because Kora’s is the only sports and study boarding school currently in Senegal housing both girls and boys.

In addition, we are not a classic sport boarding school, we go beyond sport by housing people in a family concept, educating them (behavior in society), reintegrating them into school, and training them in other disciplines to show them that sport is not their only chance to succeed in life.

We allow young people to reintegrate into society, to re-socialize by being in contact with other integrated young people who can push them upwards.

Now we want to turn to street children, by reproducing this innovative model. Several projects are underway at their destination, but our method allows us to put an end to begging and abuse by developing alternatives and support measures. 

We have 3 steps :

• Testing with 40 children
• Expending the project to other children (100) + acquire premises + provide general education internally + virtual learning
• Expend the projet to 200 children

It is effective because these steps allow us to test, readapt, and continue. We can also begin activities with little means and develop over time

In each step children have sport training, general education classes, professional opportunities, global support in social behaviour...