UGANDA / FOOTBALL

Football players from across East and Central Africa will gather in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on September 21 and 22 to take part in the finals of the Great Lakes Peace Cup, a tournament organized to help former combatants – many of them abducted child soldiers – become part of their communities through the unifying power of sport. WORLD BANK

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:03
• Production Date: 19 September 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD BANK
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA; BURUNDI; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; RWANDA; UGANDA
• MAMS Id: U120919i

Description

STORY: UGANDA / FOOTBALL
TRT: 2:03
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2012, KAMPALA, UGANDA / FILE

FILE - RECENT, UGANDA

1. Wide shot, penalty shot
2. Med shot, coin toss
3. Close up, team members lined up
4. Wide shot, city view
5. Various shots, street scenes
6. Close up, spectators
7. Close up, red team huddle
8. Various shots, game
9. Med shot, children spectators
10. Med shot, spectators
11. Various shots, training drills
12. Close up, player’s medal
13. Close up, boot on the pitch
14. Wide shot, football and drills

19 SEPTEMBER 2012, KAMPALA, UGANDA

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Betty Bigombe, Ugandan Minister of Water and the Environment:
“It is also something that they enjoy doing rather than sitting in a classroom being told to reconcile, or make up for their past, but it is practical, it is a practical approach to reconciling people. Because, before you know anything they are laughing at one another, they are probably going to socialize more and more and talk about the game they have had.”

FILE - RECENT, UGANDA

16. Tracking shot, action play
17. Med shot, handshakes
18. Wide shot, children playing
19. Wide shot, street scene
20. Med shot, team
21. Wide shot, referee
19 SEPTEMBER 2012, KAMPALA, UGANDA
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Louis Emmanuel Oloyotoo Okello, Winterbury FC Player:
“My colleague, Zha, we call him Zha, he is one of the ex-soldiers. But now I don’t see him as an ex-soldier, because we usually play very well with him. I give him passes and he gives me. So, I don’t see him as an ex-soldier because that relationship has been built.”

FILE - RECENT, UGANDA

23. Wide shot, players embrace

Storyline

Football players from across East and Central Africa will gather in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on September 21 and 22 to take part in the finals of the Great Lakes Peace Cup, a tournament organized to help former combatants – many of them abducted child soldiers – become part of their communities through the unifying power of sport.

Throughout the spring and summer of 2012, teams across Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda played for national Peace Cup titles.

The winning teams from the four countries will meet and compete on the weekend of International Peace Day (September 21) to win the title of Great Lakes Peace Cup champion.

Ugandan Minister of Water and the Environment, Betty Bigombe, said playing football is “something that they enjoy doing rather than sitting in a classroom being told to reconcile” and these former combatants “are probably going to socialize more and more and talk about the game they have had.”

The Great Lakes Peace Cup aims to break down barriers and prejudice left by years of conflict. Each team consists roughly of half former combatants and half community members.

Louis Emmanuel Oloyotoo Okello, a player for Kampala’s Winterbury FC, said he does his tem mates as football players, not as ex-soldiers “because that relationship has been built.”

The Peace Cup is supported by the Transitional Demobilization and Reintegration Program (TDRP) of the World Bank.