Women’s Football for Unity, Rwanda
Summary
The project will make girls' football strong in Kigali City and Rwanda. The project will demonstrate the positive impact of gender in sport for social change.
How Donors Like You HelpedThanks to donors like you, a total of $105,065 was raised for this project. 
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
AKWOF promotes girls and women’s rights and self-confidence through sport, especially football. We assist Rwandan women to have a forum for integration and reconciliation. We use sport to promote awareness among Rwandan women about the dangers of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic and provide a meeting point between the elite and uneducated women for exchange of ideas
Activities
AKWOF will train female trainers, coaches, referees and match commissioners. We will create the Women Soccer Federation and a professional women’s Football Team.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $105,065
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $105,065. The original project funding goal was $105,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will make women’s football a catalyst for unity and reconciliation while creating a viable economic activity, thereby reducing poverty amongst women. We will show the impact of sport and social change.
Project Message
Genocide left women survivors traumatized and with no more value for life. In 1997, we ladies decided to rub off history and took initiative to encourage women football for unity & reconciliation
- Rwemalika Felicite, Founder, AKWOF
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Felicite Rwema,
Founder, AKWOF
Nyaruuguge - Kigali
250
Kigali, Kigali 5141
Rwanda
8303398
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
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Association of Kigali Women Footballers Nyaruuguge - Kigari 00 250 08303398 Kigali, Kigali NA Rwanda 083033981 08523 |
Learn more about Association of Kigali Women Footballers and the project team.
Association of Kigali Women Footballers's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Sports to Promote Women's Rights in Rwanda |
 Children's Voice in Rwanda |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Rwanda
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Rwanda, read the Human Development Report on Rwanda or the Wikipedia entry for Rwanda.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 17, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 02, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Near our Goal & Progess to Report
By Felicite Rwemalika - Executive Director, AKWOS, December 17, 2007 06:35 PM
Since we have first joined the Global Giving community, we have made great progress with the funds you have helped us raise. Here are our achievements
i) Women football competition has been held at local, regional and national level. The sitting ball, volley ball for disabled women has been introduced
ii) We continue to promote messages on unity and reconciliation, gender and women rights issues and HIV/AIDS prevention in all of our sports and community activities, including workshops.
iii) An international conference on Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change was held in Kigali in April 2007. It attracted women sports leaders from Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, South Africa, The Netherlands and Rwanda
iv) Organized the first Women’s Run & Football Tournament in October 2007 as a part of the Centenary events for Kigali City with over 3000 people, including 1000 women and girls from ages 7 to 87 years old participating.
Help us reach our project goal of $105,000! Once we reach this goal, we will be ready tell you about a new project which will help us spread our work in all of Rwanda and the Region.
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