Our very own Sports Academy was created to ensure that your passion for sports and eagerness to share your knowledge and energy could be channeled into meaningful experiences on the field. After school, children from the surrounding community gather to form teams. Together with a local coach, you’ll have the opportunity to train these aspiring athletes, provide workouts, and share refreshments at the end of each session.
Our aspiration is that these young athletes will one day proudly represent their country on the international stage.
A child’s involvement in sports plays a crucial role in their physical development and shapes their future. We encourage you to be innovative, suggesting various sports-related activities tailored to the students’ ages, preferences, and interests.
Sports education holds particular significance in the lives of young Fijians, with rugby standing out as the most popular sport. Program activities may include teaching sports rules and fundamentals, showcasing examples of different sports, organizing sport-related activities, engaging in sports with children, and imparting lessons on respect and fairness in sports.
Your Responsibilities – General Information
As a sports coach, your primary duties include imparting relevant skills, tactics, and techniques to young athletes. You’ll introduce basic rules and regulations, coordinate game plans and events, monitor and enhance performances through encouragement, motivation, and constructive feedback, identify the sports development needs, strengths, and weaknesses of the children, and provide advice on health and lifestyle matters. Your role involves being an integral part of their journey towards future success.
To refine the skills and potential of young Fijian athletes, consider starting with fundamental skills and techniques, keeping in mind that they are just beginning their sporting journey.
Further details on the stated rules and regulations will be provided by local staff or the Country Manager a day after your arrival.
Location
Coral Coast is noted as the ‘adventure capital of Fiji’ and is located about 1 hour from Suva and 1 hour from Nadi. It is known for it’s incredibly beautiful coast line, tourist beaches and resorts and heaps of activities from 4 wheel drive tours, shark feeding, surfing, rivers & waterfalls, golf etc and is home to the famous Bega lagoon and bega fire walkers. Sigatoka is the gateway to the Coral coast and home to several of our projects.
Project Tasks
Volunteers will help teach and educate primary school children of different ages at different academic and physical levels. Tasks may include but are not limited to;
- Teaching sports rules
- Teaching basics of games
- Organise sport related activities
- Play sports with children
- Teach respect and fairness in sports
*** During the school holiday, teaching programs, kindergarten programs, healthcare programs, and sports education programs will be conducted at the Kids Club in a local village or community hall.
We’d like to inform you
that Fijian Immigration has recently updated its guidelines for volunteers.
It’s important that we follow these new procedures closely to ensure a smooth
arrival process and avoid any issues at immigration.
Here’s what our participants need to know:
1. Arrival Card
All volunteers should write “volunteering” as their purpose of visit on
the arrival card they fill out at the airport.
2. Short-Term Volunteers (up to 10 weeks)
Volunteers will be granted a 14-day business visa on arrival.
After that, they'll need to extend their stay for an additional 2 months.
Fee for extension: FJD 95.10 (around USD 43)
3. Long-Term Volunteers (more than 10 weeks)
Those staying for more than 10 weeks must apply for a short-term work
permit online before arrival.
Permit cost: FJD 664.50 (around USD 290)
According to the updated explanation, this applies not only to individual
volunteers but also to groups and teams supporting local communities.
Activities such as volunteering are officially considered “work” and therefore
do not fall under standard tourism. Only travelers visiting purely for holidays
and staying in hotels are eligible to enter on a visitor visa.
With a new enforcement team now in place, immigration officers are strictly
applying these rules.
