Banange, Tugende Uganda! (My friends, we are going to Uganda!)

Play Like a Champion Today® will be taking its work across the globe tomorrow as PLACT staff travels with Notre Dame students amd ND Athletics staff to Uganda for a two week trip to explore the role of youth sport in human development. Check out our recent interview about the trip with WSBT South Bend here. We are very excited by this endeavor, and we cannot wait to get our boots on the ground, and use this experience as both a learning and teaching experience. We certainly hope to impart our message of sport as a tool for raising good, healthy children, and we know we will learn a lot from the Ugandan educators, government officials, and religious leaders with whom we will be working.

 The University of Notre Dame is a wonderful place that seeks not simply to be a place of strong intellectual thought but to couple that intellect with a giving heart. PLACT is of the same philosophy, and we hope that we will do a great amount of good with this effort, as well as learn how we can best advance the common good of the children of Uganda with our work. We are thankful for this unique opportunity, and we invite you to follow our trip on our blog in the next two weeks!