Sports to Promote Women's Rights in Rwanda
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Summary
This Project aims to use sport to empower Rwandan women and girls to create a strong forum of advocacy on women’s rights, HIV/AIDS prevention & management and issues of unity and reconciliation.
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How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $36,735 was raised for this project.
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Received $36,735 from 24 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project beneficiaries will mainly be girls and women including widows, disabled women, girl children heading families and women in associations of people living with HIV. These are groups of people that are vulnerable to violence and isolation due to their social status. The project will empower the beneficiaries to take a leading role in prevention and management of all the above mentioned issues for their own advancement and security as well as for the community as well.
Activities
We will increase women and girls knowledge of their health rights, in a forum which shows that sport is not just for competition and leisure but a discipline that requires effort and skills that enhance human rights and national development.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $36,735
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 $36,735. The original project funding goal was $28,100.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will give awareness of health rights to 400 women and girls. Plus, we will train 30 coaches and referees who become trainers and can go back to their provinces and continue to make women aware of HIV/Aids prevention & management
Project Message
The 1994 genocide used rape as a weapon of war. About 250,000 women were infected with HIV/AIDS. The consequences are vivid today as many victims live without basic food security or health services
- Felicite Rwemalika, AKWOS Executive Director
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on July 17, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 19, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
CONFERENCE ON GENDER EQUITY..... REPORT
By Felicite RWEMALIKA - Executive Director, July 17, 2008 06:29 PM
The 2003 Magglingen Declaration recommended the inclusion of women, girls and other marginalized groups in sports initiatives as a priority. In 1998 the 2nd World Conference on Women and Sport in Windhoek, Namibia made a “Call to Action” for increased cooperation between women’s organizations and recognized the role of sport in the advancement of girls and women.
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