{"id":529,"date":"2017-07-25T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=529"},"modified":"2017-09-15T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:42:56","slug":"what-happened-when-six-sports-students-travelled-to-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/07\/25\/what-happened-when-six-sports-students-travelled-to-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened when six sports students travelled to Tanzania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5FZ8VFdw5Ec\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view video: Our life-changing placement in Africa, by Molly and Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"watch-title-container\">In spring 2017, six Sheffield Hallam students travelled to Tanzania to put what they\u2019ve learned so far on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/study-here\/find-a-course\/bsc-honours-sport-development-with-coaching-fulltime\" target=\"_blank\">sport coaching course<\/a>\u00a0into practice on a seven-week placement.<\/p>\n<p>Working with young adults and children, the students delivered multi-sports sessions and coached football teams competing in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eacup.org\/what-is-the-eac-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">East Africa Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also worked with local schools and community groups to support community sport development in Tanzania \u2013 passing on their coaching and leadership skills to the coaches of the future.<\/p>\n<p>As well as all this, they also had time to see Tanzania, going on safari and spending time on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of the many life-changing placements our students enjoy every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view video: Our life-changing placement in Africa, by Molly and Taylor In spring 2017, six Sheffield Hallam students travelled to Tanzania to put what they\u2019ve learned so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9105,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-student-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2017\/07\/Tanzania-2.jpg?fit=963%2C504&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-8x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":944,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/12\/12\/sheffield-united-intern-programmes\/","url_meta":{"origin":529,"position":0},"title":"Growing relationship between the Blades and Sheffield Hallam thanks to intern programmes.","author":"Sarah Briscoe","date":"December 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The relationship between Sheffield United and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) continues to grow as students studying sport programmes at Sheffield Hallam University have chosen to do their block placement at Sheffield United. 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