We use soccer, the world's most popular team sport, as a vehicle for positive change in the lives of 80 girls, ages 7-19 in Granada, Nicaragua. A team can be the most powerful change agent in a young girl's development, proven to inspire healthy choices regarding drugs, sex, alcohol, academics, and nutrition. This project provides soccer, team-building, life-skills, culture exchange, and civic engagement activities that support girls to make the healthy choices needed to achieve their goals.
Girls in Granada, Nicaragua face tremendous challenges: 28% are pregnant by age 18, 52% do not complete primary school, many are expected to raise younger siblings. The chance to become engaged and educated members of society is slim; there are obstacles at every turn. This project gives girls in Granada the tools to overcome these obstacles, and provides social and economic support to achieve their goals.
We provide soccer, team-building, workshops, civic engagement, and cultural exchange activities that develop key skills for girls in Granada to overcome obstacles to success. The team atmosphere and shared identity provides girls with a network of caring peers and mentors that inspires each girl to stay enrolled in school, avoid risky behaviors and make healthy choices. By participating girls earn points that can be exchanged for school supplies, clothes, shoes, toiletries, and soccer equipment.
Our aim is for this program to grow into teams in every age group (7-19), reaching more than 250 girls, 5 days per week, year round. Empowering these girls through soccer, the development of key skills, and connecting them to tangible education and career opportunities can help break the cycle and reset the precedent for what is expected of girls in Nicaragua, and what they expect of themselves. Already, there is interest replicating the program around the country.
The coaches and leaders make our dreams bigger and have taught us to respect each other, to enjoy ourselves, and more than anything to achieve our most beautiful and far-off dreams.
- SWB Participants of Nicoya team, Nicoya team is made up of 16-19 year olds
Total Funding Received to Date: $26,906
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $7,093
Total Funding Goal: $34,000
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