IT’S ALL system go for this year’s national finals of Youth Education through Sport (YES) Festival to be held in Bulawayo from tomorrow to Saturday.
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The Northern Region will be providing 10 teams for the games with five coming from Harare, four from Mashonaland Central and one from Mashonaland East.
The Southern Region will have 15 teams with the hosts Bulawayo providing eight; Midlands three teams; Masvingo will provide two, while Matabeleland South and North will provide one team each.
These are the teams that made in the provincial YES Games that were staged in Gweru on November 23. The teams will be taking part in three sporting disciplines; football, netball and volleyball and the peer education component and community projects.
Venues for the games are White City Stadium, Iminyela and Induba on Friday and Saturday. Peer education element will be held at Eveline High School on Friday afternoon. Sam Dzvimbu, the Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) co-ordinator for Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, yesterday said they have done all the necessary ground work and were expecting the teams to be checking in tomorrow.
“Teams will be checking in on November 6 (tomorrow) and be accredited at Eveline, the command centre. We have put everything in place and all the games villages are ready. All the sub-committees are in place. We have done everything possible and everyone is geared to receive the athletes and get the festival started,” Dzvimbu said.
The YES Festival is the brainchild of the SRC that started in 1999 aimed at imparting life skills to youthful athletes using sport as a platform.
