Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball

by IDEAS INFORMACION Y DISENOS EDUCATIVOS PARA ACCIONES SALUDABLES, A.C.
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Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball
Young Indigenous Women Empowered with Basketball

Summary

In Chiapas, women's conditions are limited in their access to education, health, recreation and public spaces. Women from an early age must engage in housework and be prepared for the fulfillment of the role of being mothers. We find sports as a tool that improves development and physical well-being and strengthens leadership, teamwork and companionship. To achieve our goal of empowering more than 50 indigenous young women, we need to form in basketball.

$5,111
total raised
57
donors
0
monthly donors
5
years

Challenge

In Chiapas the conditions of women are limited in their access to education, health, recreation and public spaces. Women from an early age must dedicate themselves to household chores and be prepared to fulfill the role of being mothers. This situation affects the high rates of teenage pregnancy and marriages at an early age, a phenomenon that in many cases arises from negative cultural practices such as the normalization of sexual abuse and gender inequality.

Solution

We find sports as a tool that improves development and physical well-being and strengthens leadership, teamwork and companionship. We need to form basketball teams and provide them with professional sports advice to increase their skills, in addition to the acquisition of the necessary sports equipment and the rehabilitation of the courts in community and school spaces within the regions of Los Altos and La Selva, in Chiapas.

Long-Term Impact

The project empowers indigenous young people, so that when they go out on the basketball courts, they are also capable of generating transformations in their own lives and their communities; acquiring better tools so that tomorrow they can see life like a basketball court, free to do what they are truly passionate about.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Project Leader:
Maria Leticia Santiz Jimenez
Mexico City , Mexico

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Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
   

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