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Sports to Empower Women & Girls in Rwanda

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Sports to Empower Women & Girls in Rwanda

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Summary

AKWOS empowers women through sport & education to improve their rights, break barriers between social classes, raise women's standing in society, enhance unity & reconciliation and prevent HIV/Aids. read updates from the field

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$30 - Provide transport for rural players to participate in a sport events
$120 - Nutritious meals for two girls football teams teams on game day
$8,000 - Support a conference in E/C Africa on sport for gender equity

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Until recently, it was accepted that women should not practice sports, since they were meant to take care of domestic chores. Now, practicing sports is tearing down the walls of social paradigm and making a statement for equality among men. Sports contributes to women and girls' strength and self-esteem. And to society through the alleviation of poverty and disease including HIV/Aids, thus ensuring their well being. With only 3% of Rwandan women practicing sports, we still have a lot to do.

Activities

We build capacity amongst Rwandan women: for sports - players, coaches, referees, administrators; for life skills - education, health, promotion of women’s rights, peace & reconciliation; and for income generation - job skills & entrepreneurship.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $181,365
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $148,634
Total Funding Goal: $330,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.akwos.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Our 2010 goals are to raise the self-esteem of 10,000 Rwandan women by participation in sporting teams and family planning, HIV/Aids & nutrition programs. We will gather the voices of East African women to join the sports for social change movement.

Project Message

The 1994 genocide used rape as a weapon of war. About 250,000 women were infected with HIV/AIDS. The consequences are vivid today as many victims live without basic food security or health services.
- Felicite Rwemalika, AKWOS Executive Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Felicite Rwema
Founder, AKWOF
P.O. Box 3065
Kigali, Rwanda
Rwanda
25008303398
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Association of Kigali Women Footballers
Nyaruuguge - Kigari 00 250 08303398
Kigali, Kigali NA
Rwanda
083033981 08523

Learn more about Association of Kigali Women Footballers and the project team.

Association of Kigali Women Footballers's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Train 100 football women coaches in Rwanda

Association of Kigali Women Footballers's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Children's Voice in Rwanda

Women’s Football for Unity, Rwanda

Sports to Promote Women's Rights in Rwanda

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Rwanda and can also be found under Sport.

For more information about Rwanda, read the Human Development Report on Rwanda or the Wikipedia entry for Rwanda.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 4, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 8, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Coach the Coach' Women Course & Sport for promoting girls’ legal rights

By RWEMARIKA Felicite - Executive Director/AKWOS, February 04, 2010 01:33 PM

Trainees on football coaching pose for a group photo

The E.Director/AKWOS shakes hands with one of the teams

AKWOS organized a sport tournament themed: “promoting young girls’ legal rights through sports”. The tournament brought together young girls footballers in football competitions and the disabled girls and women in seat ball competitions. Prior to this, a basic football coaching course for 35 female coaches in Rwanda took place as part of women empowerment through sport for social change project.
Basing on achievements so far made, we are strongly of the view that sports is the most successful tool for women empowerment for social change, by enhancing health and well being, fostering self esteem and empowerment, facilitating social integration and inclusion, challenging gender norms and providing opportunities for leadership and achievement.
We are humbly calling up on different donors, to support us, so as to make our project successful. We also need your opinions, suggestions and comments on how we can work together to attract wider support, and by so doing, we will be contributing to women empowerment. We take this opportunity to thank all our supporters and partners, while requesting their continued support and partnership.

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