Grassroots Golf Development: Afriyea Golf Academy, Toro club team up to steer local schools in Fort Portal
With just three weeks into the opening of the second term of the school calendar, Afriyea Golf academy in partnership with Toro club working with the local schools. These schools include Glory to Glory Education Centre, Tooro parents’ education Centre and Green circle nursery and primary school. As many as one hundred eleven (111) junior […] The post Grassroots Golf Development: Afriyea Golf Academy, Toro club team up to steer local schools in Fort Portal appeared first on Kawowo Sports.
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With just three weeks into the opening of the second term of the school calendar, Afriyea Golf academy in partnership with Toro club working with the local schools.
These schools include Glory to Glory Education Centre, Tooro parents’ education Centre and Green circle nursery and primary school.
As many as one hundred eleven (111) junior golfers from these respective schools have been recruited.
The children are between the ages of 4- 12 years and enjoy their normal school with embedded golf program weekly.
These children are given a minimum of two hours of golf training conducted by the Afriyea Golf academy.
This program blends the practical golf sessions with theory sessions aiming at helping the children who are looking at taking golf to a bigger career and those who are using it to forge a career like become golf green keepers, managers and leaders in the industry.
The program is also undertaking the golf students through essential life skills, environmental sustainability and health care.
In just three weeks, the Afriyea Golf Academy has delivered 666 contact hours each child of the 111 of the local school golf children and by the end of the second term (August), the academy is hoping to have delivered 2664 contact golf hours to the children.
Apio Anne, 24, a teacher of primary three class at Glory-to-Glory Education Centre remarked that golf is a great sport for the children.
The school embraced golf the children have improved in many aspects in class and outside of class, their concentration, respect and arithmetic’s is far away better.
The game teaches transferable skills from the green to class and from class to green.
When kids begin learning golf at an early age it becomes part of them but more importantly helps them in identifying their true career path early which can help them to concentrate their learning to where they have the strength. Robert Happy, professional golfer
Isaiah Mwesige the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AFRIYEA Golf academy hints that the school golf program is a wonderful opportunity to the children who wouldn’t have had a chance to play golf.
They now find it and this a major boost to the overall of the national golf development in feeding the national team with good players but as well this school programs presents an opportunity to promote inclusion and life skills.
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