Sports for Equality
This project's parent organization is Moving the Goalposts
It operates in Kenya
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport for Equality Award
More about Sports for Equality
Moving the Goalposts (MTG) is a unique Community Based Organization, that since 2001 has used football as tool to empower girls and young women in Kilifi and Kwale Counties and is currently in the process of expanding to the other 4 counties of the Kenyan Coastal Region. MTG runs an annual football league and tournaments in 50 community league fields. Besides Kilifi and Kwale being one of the poorest counties in Kenya, girls and women are deprived of opportunities to compete equally with their male counterparts due to retrogressive social norms and lack access to limited resources. In an effort to combat this; MTG builds capacity of girls and young women to take up leadership opportunities, facilitate girls and young women's access to education, equip women with Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights(SRHR) information so as to make informed decisions and economically empower them through training on financial literacy,facilitation to form savings groups and business and connect them to micro finance institutions. Also,MTG contribute to elimination of violence against women and harmful practices like early and forced marriages through advocacy and stakeholders engagement.