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A few years later, SCORE supported the Zimbabwean Sports and Recreation Commission to set up a sports volunteer program. Then during the period of 2000 - 2010, SCORE became much more active in the Southern African region. At the core of this was SCORE's involvement in sports volunteer programming; from 2002-2011 SCORE facilitated a regional south-s... outh sports volunteer exchange program which included South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and later Lesotho. SCORE's work in the region began in 2000, when SCORE expanded its programs to Namibia, at the invitation of the then Namibian Ministry of Youth and Sport, and began the first exchange program of sports volunteers between Namibia and South Africa. Work in Namibia focused on school sport and developing a youth sports volunteer corps. In 2006, SCORE Namibia was responsible for the recruiting, training and management of volunteers at the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, Zone VI Youth Games hosted by Namibia in Windhoek. In 2007, SCORE Namibia was involved with the Next Step sport and development conference hosted in Windhoek and responsible for organising a Youth Forum that took place alongside the conference. During the same year, SCORE Namibia's programs were included in the Republic of Namibia's National Development Plan III. In 2002, SCORE had expanded to Zambia, working with the National Sports Council of Zambia and with support from Norwegian donors. Around the same time, SCORE formalised its presence in the Netherlands, which had served as a recruiting base for volunteers from across Europe, and established Stichting SCORE (SCORE Netherlands). As SCORE's experience and expertise was recognised, so opportunities to share that expertise internationally also increased. As a result, SCORE facilitators and program experts worked on projects in the Caribbean, Canada, various countries in Africa and even in Vietnam, as well as working with other NGOs and some government departments in South Africa, for whom we offered training that used sport as a ...Read More