Sports to Empower Women & Girls in Rwanda

AKWOS in partnership with Play for Hope and the National Football Federation organized a Workshop of Girls between 17 and 21 years on the role of Football to promote Leadership skills, Coaching, Refereeing and First Aid during training and Football Competitions. On the 6th April we were able to organize grassroots soccer...

AKWOS visited Rulindo District in the Northern province of Rwanda whereby there is 15 Women Agricultural Cooperatives; of which AKWOS sensitized them on the Economic Empowerment and Improvement on the Sports activities. These women have participated in different Football tournaments and won Trophies. During this...

AKWOS in partnership with WOMEN WIN organized a 2 day workshop of training Women Coaches on Goal Curriculum. These coaches needed this training so that they strengthen their skills on the strategy of Empowering Young Girls on the following Modules: BE YOURSELF, BE HEALTHY, BE EMPOWERED and BE MONEY SAVVY. The Goal...

Association of Kigali Women in Sports visited the Mayor of Gisagara District of the Southern Province in the process of requesting Land for the women teams who were able to group themselves in Agricultural Cooperatives to improve their way of living and empower themselves economically. AKWOS was promised by the local...

On 29th-30th November 2011, AKWOS organized a football competition and Women bicycle riders marking the word AIDS’ Day in Eastern Province, Ngoma District. They were 4 teams each composed of 25 players and 20 women riding bicycles. Testimonies were given to prove to the public that people living with HIV/AIDS are...

This first football competition brought together 12 schools from UNICEF child friendly schools. These teams were selected from all over the country and were made of girls aged 7 to 13. The purpose of such an activity is to inculcate the culture of sport in the mentality of the Rwandan youth, much as a new culture can be...

Rwanda depends on agriculture, which is mostly done by women, so they grouped themselves in cooperatives and did the process of registration so that we may help them develop modern farming in order to fight poverty.As you can see the teams that were ready to participate in a friendly match in the Northern provinces...

These are the new captain  of schools that were attending the training of trainers course organized by AKWOS with the main objective of teaching them the role of sports for health and development . It was a 5 day workshop with different lessons  such as children, rights, fight gender based violence, awareness...

In partnership with Right To Play/Rwanda we organized a football tournament that targeted school dropout girls from 35 sectors of Kigali City, aged between 15-25. The purpose was to mobilize them in matters relating to Reproductive Health, HIV AIDS & other diseases. Also, we organized a walk/march for 150 women from 30...

With the Purpose of empowering women through sports, AKWOS in partnership with Global Giving and Mercy Corps , distributed Nike sport equipments to different women sport teams right from the grassroots. These included 60 rural women and girls sport teams from 20 selected Districts, 20 volley teams for women with...

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...

Manmeet Mehta and I spent a day with Felicite and Grace, learning more about them and the work they are doing. We visited two of the 29 schools where AKWOS has established programs and saw the girls in action. Since Alexis and Brian wrote a postcard about the work not too long ago let me offer a few different...

Alexis Nadin is a student at American University and former intern at GlobalGiving. This summer, she is travelling through Africa and visiting a number of GlobalGiving projects. Alexis visited this project on May 29, 2009. She writes: Location: Kaninya School, Rwanda As we stood amidst throngs of students (many of...

These are players of Rwandan W omen's football team rejoicing after winning a friendly match with players from Congo after a workshop on conflict resolution through sports. This is one of our objectives in empowering women through sports .It is well known that Congo was passing in difficulties due to the war that was...

This section covers the objectives of the project and then provides a background on the need for this project. The neccessity of this project is crystallised through four perspectives: having a role model, the international and national perspective and the gap that this project fills and the needs it addresses.

In line with empowering women through sport,the Association of Kigali Women in Sports(AKWOS) has organized a Training of 29 women Primary schools teachers on: Fighting against Gender based violence, HIV/AIDS prevention , Conflit resolution and football rules and regulations (both Practical and Theoritical)

In their 21/01/2008 consultative meeting women representing their associations in Sub-region. i.e:Congo Kinshasa, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania have created a Regional Initiative for Women Advancement through Spots (RIWAS) with the purpose of "Connecting to each other in many ways through sports in order to make...