Empowering Women Through Football in Colombia

We’re writing to you with full hearts and deep gratitude. Thanks to your support, something extraordinary is taking root on Colombia’s Pacific Coast — a region rich in culture and resilience, yet deeply affected by violence, inequality, and neglect.

In December 2024, we launched a new initiative focused on young girls and adolescents — those most at risk, and too often forgotten.

Over the course of this year-long project, girls are being directly supported through a powerful blend of psychosocial care, sports training, and peacebuilding education. Their families and wider communities — hundreds more — will feel the ripple effects of this work.

Why girls?
Because when we invest in girls, we invest in entire communities.
Because girls here face not only the trauma of conflict, but the daily reality of gender-based violence, limited access to education, and a society that too often tells them they are less.

But not anymore.
Not with you by their side.

Already, we are seeing change. Girls find courage through team sports and trauma-informed workshops, while others are learning their rights for the first time — and how to advocate for themselves and one another. These are safe spaces where healing begins, confidence grows, and futures are rewritten.

This project is more than just programming — it's a commitment to gender equality, dignity, and lasting peace.

And it’s only possible because of you.

Thank you for believing that every girl deserves the chance to grow up safe, strong, and heard. Your support is breaking cycles of violence and building a foundation for transformation that will last for generations.

With heartfelt thanks,

Children Change Colombia

Links:

• Project Description and Specifics