I CHOOSE SPORT AT LARA GROUND

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Children are our future.  Engaging themselves in outdoor activities can help them lead a healthy lifestyle.  As such, the "I Choose Sport" programme has been taking place across the country.  On Saturday, our cameras were at the Brian Lara Recreation Ground in Santa Cruz, where former West Indies women's cricketer Anisa Mohammed was present.

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00:00Exposing children to sport at a young age can provide lots of benefits. Such is

00:05the case with the I Choose Sport program which is currently in progress. On

00:09Saturday, these young ones were at the Brian Lara Recreation Ground in Santa

00:13Cruz, the venue named after the West Indies legend. While the boys and girls

00:17could be seen warming up, the sport they were getting a taste of was cricket.

00:21Also at the ground was former West Indies cricketer Anisa Mohammed who was

00:25involved in this initiative.

00:50Saturday's session completed 11 weeks of the 12-week program with a

00:55cricket festival set for October 26th. So what was the reason for choosing the

00:59Santa Cruz venue?

01:00Yeah well we know this ground was named after Brian Lara so that's one of the

01:05reasons why you know we we decided to choose this ground as you know Brian

01:09Lara is from this area not only that the Bravo Brothers is also from here. So

01:13actually one of the teams named their team for the cricket festival Lapsan

01:19Cantaro champions because of Dwayne Bravo. According to Mohammed, it's

01:25important to get children coming out to play cricket. Having said that, she

01:30touched on many of the things that they were able to learn while at the camp.

01:33In our program it's not just cricket it's also about personal development as

01:36well. So we have had during the course of the last 11 weeks we have had

01:40person coming in talking about nutrition, strength and conditioning, media

01:46sessions. So it's not just about getting them involved in sports but also

01:50learning and development as a person as well. Mohammed also sees this as an

01:55opportunity for the younger generation to be involved in outdoor activities

01:58since many in this day and age are using their phones excessively.

02:03Vinod Narwani, TV6 Sport

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