Sports to Empower Women & Girls in Rwanda

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. progress report read updates from the field

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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: £113,810
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £54,180
Total Funding Goal: £167,990

Additional Documentation

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

Resources

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

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

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Organisation

Association of Kigali Women Footballers
Nyaruuguge - Kigari 00 250 08303398
Kigali, Kigali NA
Rwanda
083033981 08523
http://akwos.com/

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

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 October 10, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 08, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Football competitions, tournaments and trainings

By RWEMARIKA FELICITE - Rwemarika Felicite, October 10, 2011 01:00 AM

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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 ingrained from an early age, most girls and women will be able to campain against genderbased violence and their rights through sports as well as they grow up

The overall objective was to empower women through sports. This event took place in four different Provinces namely Kigali City, Western, Eastern Pr I and Eastern II. Each Province had three primary school teams that competed and the winners were Kanyiya (from Kigali City), Rubona (Western Province), Rubona Ngoma (Eastern Province I) and Kiziguro (Eastern Province II). The 2 teams that came first received sports equipment (whistle, balls ...).

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