Safe space for women through sport
This project's parent organization is Mathare Youth Sports Association
It operates in Kenya
It uses Football (Soccer) and Table Tennis
Entered the Sport for Equality Award
More about Safe space for women through sport
(MYSA) is a community development organisation that uses sports to engender broad socio-economic development, while also effecting positive social change. Founded in 1987 in the Mathare area of Nairobi, home to some of Africa’s largest and poorest slums, MYSA pioneered the linking of sports with social improvement and community development activities such as slum garbage cleanups, environmental improvement and HIV/AIDs prevention,gender based violence, sexual harassment, child safegurding and human and women rights. thirty one years on, it is now the largest self-help youth sports and community service organisation in Africa and is recognized as an example of excellence within the sport and development world.
Today, the organisation continues to use sports activities, particularly football, as an innovative and effective way to get youth involved in helping themselves and their communities, creating a safe space for women and children, over the years the organisation has expanded its activities to other sports; arts and culture, health education,photography, a youth offender repatriation programme, table tennis for girls and community libraries.