IDPs Uhogua Benin City camp wins Mary Waya netball award

Children and youths of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Uhogua, Benin City, have won the maiden Mary Waya Award, which was named after the current co-coach of the Malawi national netball team, Coach Mary Waya, who defied COVID-19 and took the risk to come to Nigeria in 2020 to train and certify 24 Nigerians as qualified Netball Africa coaches.

 “The work of Mary Waya has also led to CSED Initiative piloting the ‘Sporting Coders’ project, a programme that will enable some selected Nigerian secondary school girls to combine playing netball with learning how to code or improving their computing skills.”
 
It stated that though netball is specifically a sport that is designed for girls and women, the current goal of World Netball is to make the sport an inclusive game that should be enjoyed by everyone irrespective of their gender.
  
“CSED Initiative with the support of kits donated by Lord’s Taverners is currently training boys in selected schools in Nigeria, where the game of netball is played. The success of the netball team of Tare Pet School in Bayelsa State has triggered the interest of their male counterpart. Some school male netball teams look forward to gaining an upper hand over secondary schools like Oyemekun Grammar School Akure, C.S.C.S. Itam (Akwa Ibom State), Christlike School Benin City, and University Secondary School, Nsukka have netball coaches, and are currently in the process of considering raising a male netball team,” the statement said.

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