Football for Hope
This project's parent organization is Burera Volunteers for Development Association
It operates in Rwanda
It uses Football (Soccer)
Winner of the Sport for Health Award
More about Football for Hope
The project used football tournaments to promote females crucial health barriers control activities and mitigate their socio-economic impact. Teaching sessions and activities about malnutrition, gender based violence, poverty, isolation due to their social status and mobile VCT services have been conducted with women’ football teams at tournaments to empower them to take leading roles in prevention and management of all the above mentioned issues for their own specific advancement and security as well as for the community.
The achieved objectives were; To create and strengthen 15 out-of school girls & adolescent mothers’ football teams through mobilization and education to use them as a platform to develop their confidence, leadership, self esteem and as tool of empowerment and community outreach and education.To assist each women foot ball team develops and implements a project on income generation by providing the vulnerable women access to land and seeds for the cooperative members to cultivate. To establish a revolving fund system between cooperatives and create their partnerships with micro-finance institutions in order to provide loans with the women cooperatives to design micro-projects that allow them to generate income.