Boxgirls South Africa
This project's parent organization is Boxgirls International
It operates in Germany, Kenya, South Africa
It uses Boxing
Entered the Best New Project
More about Boxgirls South Africa
Informal settlements like Witsand, South Africa are dangerous places for girls. They are confronted daily on their way to school with threats from robbery to rape. Boxgirls South Africa is a fresh solution to this sadly too common problem. Boxgirls offers 5x weekly boxing training, media workshops, presentation and public speaking training and peer education in 3 locations around Capetown in partnership with local boxing or womens rights projects and primary schools.
We help girls learn to defend themselves, take on the challenge of coaching younger girls and preparing themselves to take on roles of leadership in their society. We help girls discover their own strength and take active part in creating safer communities through starting a dialogue with parents, teachers, business owners about security and dignity for girls and women. We seek out the most troubled areas to locate our projects and are very proud to be on the front line. fighting gender based violence. We also work with boys’ organisations to help them develop coaching strategies to support the boys to grow into non-violent men.