Girls Kick It
This project's parent organization is Global Youth Partnership Organisation
It operates in Uganda
It uses Football (Soccer)
Winner of the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about Girls Kick It
Since 2006, Girls Kick It (GKI) has implemented the philosophy that sport can be a vehicle to build confidence, community and improve overall health for girls and women living in Northern Uganda. Our successful GKI Sport for Social Change Leadership Curriculum uses a peer-to-peer training model where girls and women learn important and practical life-skills. Key topics within the curriculum address the prevention of HIV/AIDS and domestic violence, and personal hygiene.
Through our unique peer-based model, girls and women in our programs have demonstrated increased confidence and awareness, while showcasing their ability to be changemakers in their community. Our most recent program equips GKI players with business and management skills so that they may realize economic stability.
Through the “Gweno (chicken) Cooperative Enterprise Project” the girls and women learn further self-sufficiency through developing their poultry house business. We piloted the program with the GKI team based in the Paicho IDP Camp. Revenues generated from this social enterprise will fund the players’ school fees, and their ability to expand or develop new businesses.