Girls Kick It/ Anyira Gweyo
This project's parent organization is Global Youth Partnership for Africa
It operates in Uganda
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about Girls Kick It/ Anyira Gweyo
Girls Kick It uses soccer to tackle inequality between young women and men, and enable young girls and women to become empowered in their lives and in their community. Girls Kick It identified Northern Uganda as the location for its programs due to the effects the more than twenty-four year civil war has on young girls and women.
Tragically, the young girls and women of Northern Uganda have been in the crossfire of the war and have been brutalized, abducted from their homes and often forced to serve as wives or child soldiers within the Lords Resistance Army. These experiences have led to a psychological stress and trauma. Unfortunately, for the girls and women living in Northern Uganda there are few opportunities for them to engage socially and recreationally. Therefore, through soccer, Girls Kick It provides healthy opportunities; both mental and physical, as a way to encourage self-empowerment, team-building, education and activism.
GKI’s overall target demographic and age group in Uganda is comprised of young women between the ages of 10 – 26 living in urban and rural communities and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Gulu Town and Paicho Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Northern Uganda.