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Sports to Empower Women & Girls in Rwanda
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Summary
AKWOS empowers women through sport & education to improve their rights, break barriers between social classes, raise women's standing in society, enhance unity & reconciliation and prevent HIV/Aids.
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Received $53,832 from 11 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Until recently, it was accepted that women should not practice sports, since they were meant to take care of domestic chores. Now, practicing sports is tearing down the walls of social paradigm and making a statement for equality among men. Sports contributes to women and girls' strength and self-esteem. And to society through the alleviation of poverty and disease including HIV/Aids, thus ensuring their well being. With only 3% of Rwandan women practicing sports, we still have a lot to do.
Activities
We build capacity amongst Rwandan women: for sports - players, coaches, referees, administrators; for life skills - education, health, promotion of women’s rights, peace & reconciliation; and for income generation - job skills & entrepreneurship.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $53,832
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $276,168
Total Funding Goal: $330,000
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
Our 2010 goals are to raise the self-esteem of 10,000 Rwandan women by participation in sporting teams and family planning, HIV/Aids & nutrition programs. We will gather the voices of East African women to join the sports for social change movement.
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 April 11, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 08, 2008.
Latest Update from the Field
Creation of Regional Initiative for Women Advancement through Spots (RIWAS)
By Rwemalika Felicite - Executive Director of AKWOS and President of RIWAS, March 14, 2008 05:07 PM
In their 21/01/2008 consultative meeting women representing their associations in Sub-region. i.e:Congo Kinshasa, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania have created a Regional Initiative for Women Advancement through Spots (RIWAS) with the purpose of "Connecting to each other in many ways through sports in order to make use of all our resources and inner strength to create a good change."
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