The Your Game team brought their football festival to Namibia on September 21 September 2007 in a day that featured  music, football, fairplay and participatory video (PV).

The Sam Nujoma stadium in Katatura, situated in a former township, was busy all the day:  guests included athletics stars, UK's minister for the Olympics Tessa Jowell, international sports for development leaders, and hundreds of young Namibians.

As well as prizes for football and netball, there were prizes for fairplay and activities organised by youth leaders.

Participants from the PV sessions (led by the Insight team) showed youngsters how to use video cameras, whilst BBC 1Xtra dj G Money shared the duty of providing the tunes with local djs.

A day earlier Caj Sohal of Your Game had introduced the concept of Your Game to delegates of the Next Step Conference in Namibia.

He explained the YG concept, which includes a reporting workshop, DJ masterclass and commentary area, stressing the importance of the partnerships that made this possible.

The UK-based team fielded questions from an international audience, with the recurring theme of  'can this work in developing countries?'  and Caj talked about the importance of getting governing bodies, the media and community groups  on board.

Noise levels were increased when attendees then had the chance to try their hand at mixing and commentary, whilst others chose to look at BBC online training material.

for more on Your Game, click here:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/your_game/default.stm

for more on participatory video, click here:
http://www.insightshare.org/