{"id":22232,"date":"2022-07-16T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/new-sports-initiative-to-promote-women-in-karate"},"modified":"2022-07-16T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T10:11:10","slug":"new-sports-initiative-to-promote-women-in-karate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/new-sports-initiative-to-promote-women-in-karate","title":{"rendered":"New Sports Initiative to Promote Women In Karate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda Karate Federation (Ferwaka) in collaboration with the Ministry of Sports has announced plans to promote open martial arts training in schools with the objective of increasing the number of female participants.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made on July 15, 2022, during the closure of the first school\u2019s open martial arts cohort training program under the national project dubbed \u201cMartial Arts Open School in Rwanda\u201d<\/p>\n

The project is implemented in collaboration with the International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagement under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the intent of instilling Olympic values (excellence, respect, and friendship) among Rwandan students.<\/p>\n

The inaugural Martial Arts Open School project activities kicked off with two secondary schools based in Kigali- Lyc\u00e9e Notre-Dame de C\u00eeteaux and Coll\u00e8ge Saint-Andr\u00e9- who underwent a 5weeks intensive training in the inaugural cohort which started June 11 and ended July 14, 2022.<\/p>\n

On the offset, the project managed to attract altogether 442 students with 305 of them being girls. However, for various reasons, only 350 students completed the training with yellow belts.<\/p>\n

Elvis Bugingo, the Secretary General of the Rwanda Karate Federation said : \u201cWe intend to continue with similar training in other schools. This is because we see that the Karate sport is evidently developing. For instance, we managed to get medals from each of the three competitors we sent to the recent Zone 5 competitions in Kenya,\u201d Bugingo said in a press briefing on July 14, 2022.<\/p>\n

The all-men National Karate Team dominated the competition winning 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal at the UFAK Eastern Region Karate Championship 2022 held in Nairobi \u2013 Kenya from May 16-21.<\/p>\n

The Karate sports training program comes at a time when several parliament reports have recommended a cross-cutting ministerial approach to initiate and integrate sports, games, and physical exercises into the school\u2019s curriculums and activities.<\/p>\n

Florent Habyarimana, in charge of Sports Federations talent detection and development, said that the number of women in sports is still low and needs to be boosted as persons who can.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us to attain this, we will first focus on improving skills of trainer (coaches\/ instructors) for them to train increase the numbers of students who have Olympic and sporting values,\u201d Habyarimana said.<\/p>\n

Habyarimana said that the ministry will also work with federations to identify excellent students for instance in Martial Arts Open School, who can be further trained to train others in order to increase youth engagement in sports countrywide.<\/p>\n

Karate students like Akamanzi Raziella Michelle said she joined the training because the sport helps to build the power of the mind and action, while another Ngabonziza Makombe Arsene said that sport helps him to relax and manage his mental health.<\/p>\n

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