South Africa's traditional gender barriers deter girls from achieving their full potential. Recently, South Africa's president Jacob Zuma claimed that being single as a girl or woman should be looked down upon. Statements like these threaten the rights girls have over their own bodies. At Girls & Football SA, we provide girls with informative and accurate health information through sport and we need your help! Support a workshop that encourages body ownership for girls and young women.
Girls do not have access to accurate health information. Through our Girls & Football SA workshops, that operate in a safe, girls-only space, we provide girls with an opportunity to access information crucial to their health and well-being. Your support allows us to ensure that the high numbers of HIV/Aids, sexual harassment and rape see a decrease as we provide girls with tools they can use to take positive action.
Our workshops target an under-represented demographic in South Africa - adolescent girls. By engaging girls in life-skills based education workshops while encouraging them to play a game of football, we promote a healthy self-esteem, body ownership and safe space to discuss concerns and challenges. By contributing to our workshops, you are able to ensure that more girls in South Africa have access to the accurate information they have a right to.
A survey carried out with participants at Girls & Football SA, shows that 96.6% indicate that they like to be part of Girls & Football SA "very much". Further, 89.7% state that they think it's good to play with girls-only. Long term effects are thus that girls feel safe to build their lives in a positive and constructive way. Communities witness strong and powerful girls, and are therefore encouraged to look at girls as achievers and contributors to society outside of their traditional roles.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
