The program provides 37 Committees for girls with information on the realities of HIV/AIDS, gender equality and equity and the use of life and Sports skills to benefit 5000 girls in Zambia.
The project intends to address female by men/boys over girls during development stages, they also address elements of empowerment in decision making and challenging traditional gender myths that is subjected to women as well as sponsor them to get back and stay in School. Beneficiaries are youths drawn from 22 disadvantaged communities in both Lusaka and Livingstone. The benefits are at individual, community and national level.
* Leadership and life skills training is the driving force behind project implementation. * Community exchange program. * Capacity building in decision making and project implementation. * Sports skills training in different Sports codes.
The project will educate and empower 37 action teams and allow them to increase their capacity to make independent decisions and reduce vulnerability so as to produce self assertiveness and liberated women through sport.
Playing a male dominated sport and play it well develops a positive attitude in me about my ability to compete and excel in life.
- Annie Namukanga Musonda, Go Sisters Coordinator/National Football Team Capt
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,544
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $6,544 . The original project funding goal was $102,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Thanks to 107 donors like you, a total of $6,544 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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