The training was provided at the premises of the Sports High School in Casablanca.
After the success of the Basketball Experience initiative, the NBA and AFD organized a training session for the benefit of 200 physical education teachers on January 25 and 26 at the Sports High School in Casablanca. The program aims to sensitize Moroccan youth to noble concepts such as sustainable development, citizenship and gender equality, through sport.
In partnership with the association of neighborhoods “Idmaj” and theRegional Academy of Education and Training of Casablanca-Settatthe National Basketball Association (NBA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) organized, on 25 and 26 January, at the Sports High School in Casablanca, a training session for the benefit of 200 physical education teachers, as well as 30 coaches from the Royal Moroccan Basketball Federation. The Jr NBA & AFD program thus enters a new dimension, which aims to inculcate the noble values conveyed by basketball, such as team spirit, work, honor and good communication, to young Moroccans, through sport practice.
The covered hall of the Lycée des sports in Aïn Sebaa therefore seemed the ideal place for this training course, provided by the director of basketball operations for NBA Africa, Kita Matungulu. “Teachers who benefit from this training will work within schools to develop the practice of basketball, a sport that conveys the values of citizenship and represents a lever for developing the capacities of young people,” he said. The Jr NBA & AFD Basketball Experience program was launched in 2019, with the inauguration of a basketball court in Zenata. Activities were suspended a few months later, due to the pandemic. The return to business in 2021 has reached a total of 4,000 girls and boys from 50 schools in Greater Casablanca, through basketball workshops and seminars focused on personal development and citizenship. The program was launched in Morocco in its pilot version, before being repeated in fifteen other African countries.
