Yagazie Foundation YES Camp Initiative: A Sports and Community: Sharing Our Local Stories

Students share their favorite local sports or physical activities and explain why they matter in their community. This warm-up helps students connect with classmates and introduces the idea that sports and activities reflect local culture and values.

Students research, observe, and collect stories, photos, or videos of sporting and social activities happening in their own communities. They record what they find, who participates, and what skills or values these activities teach.

Students from both classes meet via video call to share their documented activities, ask questions, and discover similarities and differences in how sports and community activities build skills, friendships, and positive change in different places.

Working in small groups with their international partners (asynchronously or in follow-up sessions), students analyze what they learned, identify common themes across communities, and create a joint reflection or infographic showing how sports and social activities support sustainable development in both places.

Students present their findings, photos, videos, and joint creations to the school, explaining what they discovered about how sports build community, skills, and positive change locally and globally. They reflect on what surprised them and what they learned from their international peers.