Team Tesfa
This project's parent organization is The Tesfa Foundation UK
It operates in Ethiopia
It uses Athletics
Entered the Best New Project
More about Team Tesfa
Team Tesfa is a program to support teenage girls who find themselves alone and vulnerable in the capital city of Ethiopia. They come from the countryside as orphans or from families that cannot afford to feed every child. They come to avoid arranged marriages, to find work and education, and the factor that unites our beneficiaries is a talent in long-distance running, and a belief that the sport will save them. Long-distance running is a hugely popular sport in Ethiopia. Team Tesfa is a professional track and cross country team founded by the Tesfa Foundation. It serves as a vehicle for Tesfa Foundation programming to support the girls and women.
Through Team Tesfa, we provide the teenage girls with housing, education, counseling in reproductive health, vocational training, as well as opportunities to train and compete on the team. It provides women athletes opportunities for counseling in reproductive health and vocational training. The Tesfa Foundation UK partners on this project with the Tesfa Foundation US, the University of Minnesota Women’s Track and Cross Country Teams, LGN Wellbeing, Ltd., Sportsister, and the Girls Gotta Run Foundation in Washington DC.