COACH AND PLAY SPORTS, VOLUNTARY PROJECTS WITH CHILDREN OVERSEAS
Volunteering Gap Year, Career Break, Grown-up Gappers, Study Abroad, Cultural Exchange

Whether you just love sport or you're a professional, we have a project for you! Sports include Football, Rugby, Cricket, Polo, Badminton, Baseball, Hockey, Swimming, Gymnastics, Tennis, Athletics, Surfing, Capoeira and more! No experience required other than a desire to use Sport to help others.
Use your skills to Coach in underprivileged communities. Sport teaches a multitude of skills, such as team spirit, social interaction, fair play, competitiveness, leadership, healthy living and just good old fashion fun. It is a fantastic way to improve the lives of others. You can coach as a full time placement, or alongside another volunteer placement.

ARGENTINA:
Coach Cricket to Children in Buenos Aires
Coach Cricket in schools and clubs with the Argentina Cricket Association. You'll work as an assistant coach alongside the Head Coach, with children from the age of 8 to 15. You don't need Spanish or coaching qualifications, you just need to know how to play the game.
You are welcome to play as well. Most clubs have three teams and there is a women's league for female volunteers.

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ARGENTINA:
Polo Sports Experience in an Exclusive Club near Buenos Aires
Learn how to play Polo and work with polo horses in an elite Club located on a picturesque ranch just outside Buenos Aires. You'll work alongside gauchos exercising the horses and mucking out in the mornings, followed by Polo lessons at the Club, then you'll have 2 chukkas in the afternoons to practice what you learnt earlier in the day.

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AUSTRALIA:
Coach Sports in Primary / Junior Schools in Perth
Combine coaching sports with teaching to children in Primary Schools in Perth. The majority of schools are Intensive English Centres, where you'll coach refugee children and also do some teaching at the same time, helping them to adjust to their new home country. Many of the children come from war-torn countries such as Sudan and Somalia.

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AUSTRALIA:
Sports Internship in a High School in Perth
Gain experience in how to run a Sports Department in a high-caliber high school, working closely with the Head of Department and Sports Instructors. There are 1,800 students, who are all encouraged to participate in more than their academic studies alone. The School has a wide selection of specialist programs that run alongside their academic programs.

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BRAZIL:
Coach Football and other Sports in Rio de Janeiro
Learn and coach football to school children in Rio de Janeiro. Think of Brazil and Pele, Ronaldo and Neymar come to mind. You may be coaching a star of the future at one of our two football centres in the city! At both centres you’ll work with young children and teenagers with a passion for football, whose enthusiasm is infectious.
You don't need any qualifications to coach sports in Brazil, just a basic understanding of the game you're coaching and a love of sports, as well as an enthusiasm to share it!

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GHANA:
Coach Football to Children in Schools in Accra
Many children in Ghana don’t have the opportunity to receive proper coaching and they lack basic ball skills and understanding of Football. You'll be able to harness their enthusiasm and teach them how to use their raw talent more effectively and in a structured way.
You'll work with a number of schools, coaching football during lesson times and coaching the school teams after school.

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GHANA:
Coach Cricket to Children in Schools in Accra
Coach cricket to children who've rarely seen the game played - but it doesn't stop their enthusiasm to learn! You'll coach cricket at poor schools during lesson times. After school you could be involved in selecting and coaching an Under-12s and Under-14s team for all of the schools. On the weekends you might have the opportunity to coach and train with the Ghana National Cricket team, depending on the season.
Travellers Worldwide, together with the Ghana Cricket Association, have set up a cricket development program to develop the sport in Ghana and to give Ghanaian children the opportunity to learn to play.

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GHANA:
Summer Camp for Children in Accra
Come to Ghana and have fun with the kids! Turn their school holidays into a fun learning experience using games, hobbies and any creative activities at a Summer Camp that is free for the children. You use these activities to teach them English, games, sports, arts/crafts, drama/music, magic, face-painting ...
No qualifications required, just a love of children.

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INDIA:
Coach a Variety of Sports to Children in Schools in Madurai
Coach a variety of sports in an Englih-Medium school with children ranging from 3 to 18. Popular sports at the school include: Basketball, Cricket, Football, Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton and Table Tennis.
Sport is taught during Physical Education (PE) classes throughout the day. The schools have only basic equipment and potholed pitches, and some even use the car park as a playing ground ... but the children love sports!

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INDIA:
Coach Football to Children in Schools in Madurai
Indian children are wonderful to coach and very enthusiastic about learning sport. They turn up for training eager to learn new skills and play a game. You'll usually coach for 3 to 5 hours at one school, but you may coach in two sessions and at two different venues.
You'll work in secondary schools and you will normally help out with all age groups.

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MALAYSIA:
Coach Football, Badminton and Netball in a Rural School in Borneo
Coach Sports to children as an extra-curriculum activity and combined with a Teaching English placement. Sports is not as impactful in Malaysia as in many other countries, so any exposure you can give the children to sports is thoroughly enjoyed - they love it!
As formal school lessons take place in the mornings, the afternoons are a time for you to become involved with additional activities that interest you, such as Sports. You'll be given a timetable of lessons and will have the freedom to plan and take your own classes (with assistance, if required).

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MALAYSIA:
Scuba Diving and Resort Assistant Management
This is a work experience internship and not technically a 'Sports placement'. You'll gain experience of running a water sports centre and, if you are able to stay for a period of three months, have the opportunity to do a total of 60 dives as a prerequisite to the Dive Master Course.
You'll assist the Dive Master in taking care of the dive centre, guiding and assisting new learners, handling customers enquiries, customer service and reporting to the Dive Instructor. You can also develop your diving skills by taking several courses – i.e. PADI Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Emergency First Aid Response, Rescue Diver etc.

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NEW ZEALAND:
Coach a Choice of Sports in Schools in Auckland
Coach sports to children and assist with teaching in Clubs and schools. You can assist, develop and play a specific sport, or many different types of sports - the choice is yours! Sports include:
Athletics, Baseball, Cricket, Cross Country, Gymnastics, Hockey, Rugby Union, Tennis, plus many other sports in the schools.

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SOUTH AFRICA:
Coaching Sports in Poor Schools in Knysna
Combine sports coaching with some teaching in the schools. Sport classes are run in conjunction with the Life Orientation classes. The purpose of these classes is to develop Team work, Confidence, Self Esteem, Communication Skills and Leadership.
You can coach a variety of sports, such as Cricket, Football, Netball and Rugby. Although facilities are basic, there is still a lot that you can do. The average class size is between 15 and 40.

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SOUTH AFRICA:
Sports Work Experience Internship in Knysna
Combine coaching in a variety of sports with gaining valuable work experience in a well set-up Sports School. You'll coach full time for the underprivileged community, as well as assisting in the management and running of the school and possibly playing for various teams based at the school.
Areas you'll be involved in include Sports Administration & Management, Organising Sports Events, Sports Development and Grounds Management, amongst others. The experience you gain on this internship will be an excellent entry into your CV, making you stand out in the crowd of job seekers.

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SOUTH AFRICA:
Coach Sports to Underprivileged Children in Cape Town
Coach sports in a school with approximately 600 children, with 20 teachers. There are usually around 28 to 30 children in a class, but sometimes classes will be split into smaller groups when you are coaching/playing games on the field. You'll most likely work with children who range in age from 5 to 13.
Sports include: Athletics, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Swimming & Volleyball. English is not the children's mother tongue, but the general standard is about Fair to Good. 98% of the children at the school come from Cape Town's townships.

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SRI LANKA:
Coach Football in Schools in Ja-Ela
Work in schools for the poorer children and the underprivileged section of the community, midway between Colombo and the popular Indian Ocean resort of Negombo.
You'll probably do a mixture of sports coaching and teaching in the school, thus adding to the diversity of your time there.

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ZAMBIA:
Coach Sports to Children in Livingstone
We teamed up with the Ministry for Youth and Sport to establish a programme to coach a variety of sports to underprivileged children in schools in Livingstone, very close to the awesome Victoria Falls!
Sports you can coach include Football, Rugby, Cricket, Volleyball, Netball & Basketball.
You don't need any qualifications, just a good knowledge of your sport and a passion to pass your skills on to deserving children.

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• Confidence and Self-Esteem
• Health, Fitness and Strength: Physical, Emotional and Psychological
• Building Friendships, Cooperation and Team Spirit
• Healthy Competition
• Energy/Anger Outlet
• Expression and Individuality
• Provides positive goals or the children to strive toward
• Fun and Laughter!

I’ve been training for a long time, but it wasn’t until I started trying to teach others, breaking down and observing the individual skills -from the coach’s point of view- that I began to understand the game on a deeper level… and my own technique’s improved dramatically and quickly! L Beisly

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