LiiKe, in collaboration with the Tanzanian organization Sports Development Aid, is renovating the abandoned Finnclub Centre in Mtwara, Tanzania. In the future, the center will serve as a training hub for young people with intellectual disabilities and school dropouts. We call this initiative Project Matwaara.

LiiKe is implementing a sport-based health education project in 50+50 secondary schools along the southeastern coast of Tanzania, taking girls’ education and gender equality work to new heights. In a nine-school pilot conducted by LiiKe and its partner Sports Development Aid, the girls’ pass rate in national secondary school exams increased from 9% to 51% over five years — a remarkable achievement!

In the lower secondary school sports project supported by LiiKe, the focus is on boys’ rights — and especially their responsibilities. The key message: Treat others as you treat yourself, especially girls your own age. The project includes: a) Modernizing traditional initiation education materials for boys to reflect current values, b) Using football and physical activity to teach health and life skills, c) Training teachers to recognize and address gender inequality in schools

Zimbabwe has faced a severe economic crisis since the early 2000s, and teacher training colleges have been among the hardest hit. The training of teachers suffers from a lack of materials and motivation. Yet, education remains the most crucial step toward development. LiiKe supports the development of physical education instruction in 17 teacher training colleges across Zimbabwe, helping to strengthen teacher capacity and the role of sport in education.

The Secondary School Physical Education Training Project focuses on key priority areas in Tanzanian schools. These include establishing the framework for PE instruction and improving training both in secondary schools and teacher training colleges. The project also aims to modernize the training of PE teachers, enhance health education and adaptive physical education, and increase the visibility of the positive outcomes of physical activity and health education.

Kestävästi Liikkeelle! – Moving Sustainably How can we promote sustainable development through sport and within the sports sector? The Kestävästi Liikkeelle! project trains Finnish sports professionals and students in sustainable development and global challenges, with a particular focus on how these issues connect to physical activity and sport. The project aims to strengthen the sports sector’s commitment to the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Finland’s development policy objectives.