00:00the festival which brought together thousands of young people across the daca 2026 host cities
00:08comes just a year before the youth olympic games 2026 the international futsal tournament in jam
00:15nagyo was one of the festival's highlights eight under 17 men's teams and women's teams from africa
00:22europe and south america competed including senegal morocco portugal and brazil in the
00:29men's event namibia and guinea featured in the women's category i think that the tournament is
00:37proving to be a very enjoyable competition the senegalese people are very welcoming and try to
00:42help as much as possible and make sure we don't lack anything of course there are still things to
00:48improve but overall i think the organization is good and honestly i think they are ready for the
00:542026 olympic games here in dakar delivered by the daca 2026 organizing committee dakar on joe
01:04kept a week of activities celebrating the one year to go milestone for the youth olympic games
01:10there are many awareness raising themes discussed here all of them extremely important it really
01:18moved me because i saw young people who were shy at first but later they opened up they were eager to
01:24talk and to share their thoughts and that was wonderful to witness this activity is perfectly
01:34aligned with the ministry of health strategies because we know that many diseases are directly
01:40linked to lifestyle and environment sport plays a crucial role when it comes to preventing certain
01:46illnesses especially non-communicable diseases this activity can cause this initiative training young
01:55people who will later act as community ambassadors raising awareness about the importance of physical
02:00activity and promoting healthy living is truly significant the youth olympics will bring together two
02:10thousand seven hundred of the world's best young athletes aged up to 17
