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Sports Coaching Sri Lanka

School children have limited access to sports in Sri Lanka despite being one of the world’s leading cricketing nations. If coaching does exist, it is usually confined to the bigger cities and taught in the top-end schools leaving a huge number of children without any physical education.

Based in a local school in a deprived area of Sri Lanka, this volunteer project has been developed to provide sports coaching clinics for pupils at the school and those from the nearby community. The children learn from your experience and skills and profit from the structured environment you can help to create for them.

Local Orientation
A local orientation briefing will be given by our project coordinator to familiarize you with your surroundings and the Sri Lankan culture.

Local language and culture - social norms etc
Expected behaviour - at host family, dress code at project
Safety - what areas to avoid, what to do in an emergency
Locations of important amenities - banks, hospitals, embassies
Transportation and travel in Sri Lanka - where to go, how to get there
Volunteer placement - what your project involves, who you need to report to, other volunteers etc

Volunteer Programme

Based 300 kilometers from Colombo, in a town called Tissamaharama, volunteers working as sports coaches are given considerable flexibility and freedom and are encouraged to develop their own activity programs. The work includes:

To coach different sports to the children during allocated sports lessons and after school clinics - football, volleyball, basketball/netball, cricket etc. This may involve working with a current sports master or teacher or working on your own.
To design training drills and games for each sport to help translate the skills being taught
To build/improve existing sports facilities and sport equipment
To organise after-school training sessions and inter-school/community games
Select teams from the children to compete against each other in a final tournament for the end of the volunteer placement.
To organise a monthly sports day, with fun games that the volunteers can make up or use from their sports days when they were at school.
To referee or umpire games etc

kThe majority of sports coaching takes place after the school day which runs from 8.00am-2.00pm. The sports clinics generally start at 3pm, leaving volunteers free for much of the day to help teach English to the children who love speaking with native Englishmen/women.

Accommodation and Meals

Food and accommodation are included throughout the program.

Volunteers stay in basic, safe homes with local host-families which are within walking distance of the project.

All meals are supplied by your host family and are traditionally made Sri Lankan dishes typically comprising fresh vegetables, fish, chicken and rice.

If you suffer from allergies or have any other special dietary requirements, please mention this to your Real Gap Travel Adviser.

Programme Overview

Duration: 4 weeks - $1329/€1039

How to book & pay:
Secure with $339/€259 deposit. The balance is due 10 wks before departure.

What is included?
All accommodation
Meals
1 night in Colombo upon arrival
Airport pick up
Orientation
Volunteer placement

What is not included?
Flights
Extra activities not on itinerary
Extension (if needed) on tourist visa
Travel Insurance

Programme Summary:
Teach keen and eager children a variety of sports while staying with a local host Sri Lankan family. Free time offers volunteers the opportunity to visit the National Parks, archaeological and sites and the beach where you can surf, sunbathe etc.

Arrival dates:
First Monday of every month