Goals 4 Girls

This project unleashes potential in girls to transform from being victims into leaders walking in the fullness of their potential. The project encompasses a series of active sports for development sessions that imbue participants with sports values and vital life skills like communication, teamwork, and leadership.

This project ensures;

  • Gender Equality: particularly on the training and awareness aspects of gender-related issues (gender equality, gender-based violence, and fight against gender-based stereotypes) and development of diversity. Emphasis are given to the participation of girls in the governance of the project and thus the promotion of their contribution to the performance of the goal and their local and national influence.
  • Education: increase students’ commitment to their education, support them in their orientation and professional integration, encourage their integration into professional training, particularly around sports professions.
  • Economic empowerment: build a methodology for strengthening the girls’ economic muscle in order to ensure the sustainability of the program through creating pathways for economic mobility and employment through skilling.
  • Child protection: ensuring and providing a healthy and secure environment where rights and the needs of young beneficiaries are respected.

This project contribute to the implementation of at least 3 of the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG), including:

  • SDG 3 relating to Good Health and Well-Being: Practicing physical activity such as playing of football is one of the best ways to prevent physical and psychological illnesses. Furthermore, sport is an ideal event for raise awareness about hygiene, nutrition and communicable diseases. It therefore also helps reduce health-related costs. Using Football’s natural convening power that will creates a platform for the delivery of opportunities to educate and inform the community about much health related information. These together with further public health outreaches will be done with other partners ensure a sustainable healthy community.
  • SDG 4 relating to Quality Education: The project uses Sport as a source of motivation for schooling underserved girls by developing a special play pedagogy curriculum. Sport has been known to improve and contributes to improving concentration. It also allows the learning of life skills and the cultivation of values which enable young people to have positive personal Development. In the long term, sport therefore acts for equitable and quality education.
  • SDG 5 relating to Gender Equality: The practice of sport encourages gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through its impact on health and well-being, self-esteem, social integration and diversity. In the long term, these themes influence the employability of women and their leadership. This allows access to young girls in the workforce, includes the values of living together, with inclusion and gender equality in the young person’s personal development project and in the construction of their academic and sporting curriculum.
    The training particularly on awareness aspects of gender-related issues (gender equality, gender-based violence, fight against gender-based stereotypes) and development of diversity will break the bias and gender stereotypes for example where many communities in Uganda view women who play football as ‘strange’