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::	Sport is serious business

::	Run for your life!

::	Uniting sport and culture
	CAPACITY BUILDING: For 15 years MS have been working with the Popular Culture and Sports Programme in Mwanza Region to improve the lives of Tanzanians through sport and cultural activities. Short-term DW Dorthe Heegaard combines Danish traditions with the Tanzanian way of cooperating through sport.

::	Follow the red ball
	RIGHT TO PLAY: Children that engage in sport are also taking responsibility for themselves – and others. New organization uses sport as the power and shortcut to development.

::	Racing for attention
	CYCLING: In spite of limited resources, bad roads and no respect for the riders in Tanzanian traffic, cycling is gaining popularity. But the sport is in its infancy.

::	More than a game
	KILLING FOOTBALL: The potential for great football players is there in Tanzania. But the wrong leaders are leading the sport astray.

::	Building a different team
	THE FUTURE: A small football club in Dar es Salaam is combining European coaching principles with the technical abilities of young Tanzanian players.

::	A fair chance
	RURAL: Football in Tanzania is deadly serious and many young people are playing it anxiously every day. Yet, coming from a small, rural village, what opportunities does that leave for a talented football player?

::	Lack of professionalism
	BUSINESS: The supporters are there – and they are the ground for an investment in a football club. But the investors should focus on building the right image of ‘their’ club and take part of daily life around it.

::	National pride at stake
	OPINION: Tanzania might be one of the poorest nations in the world. And it is costly to send a team to the Olympics. But by competing in the games Tanzanian youth is gaining experience, enhancing intercultural understanding and setting a positive example for other Tanzanians to follow.

::	The base of a healthy nation
	FILBERT BAYI: The biggest sport hero of Tanzania has formed a foundation to nurse young sport talents. His philosophy is that sport leads to healthy individuals which forms and creates a healthy nation.

::	Poor Olympics
	TEAM SPORTS: Africa didn’t perform well in the Athens Olympics. How will Africa be able to live up to it’s potential in sports and at the next Olympic Games

::	Living in transit
	WAITING: One of the poorest countries in the world has one of the highest concentrations of refugees. Danish aid is now going to support the neighbours to the camps but the assistance also has to see to it that the refugees stay in Tanzania

::	A village in the big city
	INTEGRATION: Here is networking, here is exchange of gossip and this is the place to let out the frustration that not a lot is working the same way as it is back home. We are in a Danish village placed in the middle of a culture very different from the Danish