SHAPE SPORT LAUNCHED

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The Ministry of Sport on Monday evening launched the SHAPE Program at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.     SHAPE is the acronym for Sport, Health, Athletic Performance and Empowerment and is aimed at promoting sporting activity in schools across the country.

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00:00The community lands itself into the spotlight as the Ministry of Sport last evening launched

00:05the SHAPE program at the Hazeley Crawford Stadium.

00:08SHAPE is the acronym for Sport, Health, Athletic Performance and Empowerment and is aimed at

00:14promoting sporting activities in schools across the country.

00:18Sport Minister Kodjoe insists that the program is critical in aiding the development of sport

00:22at schools and in the community, while announcing TNT's very own anti-doping organization.

00:29I'm happy to announce that we recently installed our Trinidad and Tobago anti-doping organization

00:38board which is headed by no other than Douglas Camacho.

00:43Ladies and gentlemen, this is an initiative that we have been working on for many, many,

00:49many years and every year while the World Anti-Doping Agency would write us telling

00:54us you're not doing too well, you need to catch up, we're going to help you.

01:00And I'm grateful to the ambassador from Jamaica, the Jamaican High Commissioner, sorry, and

01:06the government of Jamaica for the assistance they have extended to us in building our anti-doping

01:12here in Trinidad and Tobago.

01:16Kodjoe highlighted the Pink Rain campaign that focuses on the development of women and

01:21girls in sport by providing opportunities to increase awareness and participation in

01:26sport and physical activity.

01:30And when you've gotten to that stage where you no longer wish to play physically, and

01:35even before that, encouraging women and girls to get to the leadership position, to open

01:40the doors, to stay in training, to mentor others so that we have a level playing field

01:47and our young ladies don't have to drop out when they get to the menstrual, when they

01:54get to puberty, or young ladies don't have to drop out because, or stop to make a child

02:01and never come back.

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