Go Sisters
This project's parent organization is EduSport Foundation
It operates in Zambia
It uses Multiple sports
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about Go Sisters
The project addresses gender equity by equipping girls and young women in target communities with core life skills and knowledge. This enables them to adopt leadership roles and make informed decisions that positively affect their lives through:
1. Building a sustainable network of female role models (peer leaders) who lead and inspire the next generation of female leaders.
2. Peer leaders organise themselves into Action Teams, self-managed organising committees, supported by the EduSport staff, to devise and lead educational and sports programmes for their communities.
3. Action Teams work with community leaders and parents, to engage in after-school sports clubs.Sports coaching clinics are held and ongoing sports league activities take place weekly. These clubs also constitute forums for the dissemination of health and lifestyle information.
4. Local inter-school and inter-community sporting tournaments and special events are organised in each community. These events have thematic focuses around health and girls’ rights issues and culminate in an annual national ‘Go Sisters’ Tournament.
5. All Go Sisters activities are open to girls of all abilities and are inclusive of the girls with disabilities, EduSport is trying to develop a strategy specifically aimed at meeting the needs of girls with disabilities