Project Update

By Heather Cameron - Executive Director, August 22, 2008 12:27 PM

Boxgirls International hosted a box coaching workshop from July 31st to August 3 in Nairobi, Kenya with young women from Nairobi and Kilifi. The girls reported that: “I now feel more ready to coach kids.”, “I learned a lot about stretching that I did not know”, “I don’t feel so scared saying my opinions”, “I can talk in front of people now and they will listen since I have the knowledge”. The girls from Boxgirls Nairobi and Moving the Goalposts Kilifi learned practical skills of gender sensitive coaching, strength training, tactics and how to teach amateur boxing and self defence to girls in the community. At the end of the course the girls organized and hosted a coaching session with girls and boys from the neighbourhood. The next steps are for the girls to earn money to support themselves and the project by offering afterwork training to professional women in downtown Nairobi in addition to the regular afternoon sessions with local schools.

Check out some of our pictures below of our Boxgirls in the gym and new trainer Lenah showing the girls what she learned at the Boxgirls Coaching Workshop in Kilifi, Kenya
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• Boxgirls in the Gym
• New Trainer Lenah

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