Nairobi Girls Learn Self-defense & Conflict Skills

Provide Self defense training Africa

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Nairobi Girls Learn Self-defense & Conflict Skills

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Summary

We provide 40 girls from a Nairobi slum weekly training in self defense and conflict resolution to help them negotaite their daily struggles.We prepare them to become coaches themselves & lead others. read updates from the field

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$10 - Host a girls' 2 hour training in safe sports hall
$20 - Buy sport and protective equipment for an athlete
$50 - Host a weekend girls coaching workshop
$100 - Buy protective pads and coaching equipmen

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The sprawling estates around Nairobi promise a daily threat of violence. Boxing and running provide a useful structured activity to teach the girls self confidence, discipline, self respect and self defense skills. Sports help the girls learn to relax, work in a team and concentrate. Partners provide HIV AIDS and domestic violence education. The girls learn coaching skills and have the chance to take part in media and communications training. They learn about boxers all over the world.

Activities

We will provide the skills and motivational support to help girls deal with daily violence and apathy in Nairobi slums. We will train four new trainers who will spread the project to other areas and reach new girls.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $735
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $11,265
Total Funding Goal: $12,000

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

Girls who have sports skills, can solve problems and defend themselves change the climate of the violent neighbourhoods they share by showing that girls must be treated with respect. The girls share their skills with their friends and families.

Project Message

Eastlands is an area which is prone to much violence and vices. Boxing is the best thing to do for self defense. I want to work in community development and give back to the youth.
- Kadessa, Project Leader

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Heather Cameron
Executive Director Boxgirls International
To be listed
Berlin, 12047
Germany
n/a
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Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Social Startup - Boxgirls Project
Bürknerstr. 23
Berlin, -- 12047
Germany
+491773263926
http://www.boxgirls.de

Learn more about Social Startup - Boxgirls Project and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Sport.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 13, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Project Update

By Heather Cameron - Executive Director, August 22, 2008 12:27 PM

Boxgirls International hosted a box coaching workshop from July 31st to August 3 in Nairobi, Kenya with young women from Nairobi and Kilifi. The girls reported that: “I now feel more ready to coach kids.”, “I learned a lot about stretching that I did not know”, “I don’t feel so scared saying my opinions”, “I can talk in front of people now and they will listen since I have the knowledge”. The girls from Boxgirls Nairobi and Moving the Goalposts Kilifi learned practical skills of gender sensitive coaching, strength training, tactics and how to teach amateur boxing and self defence to girls in the community. At the end of the course the girls organized and hosted a coaching session with girls and boys from the neighbourhood. The next steps are for the girls to earn money to support themselves and the project by offering afterwork training to professional women in downtown Nairobi in addition to the regular afternoon sessions with local schools.

Check out some of our pictures below of our Boxgirls in the gym and new trainer Lenah showing the girls what she learned at the Boxgirls Coaching Workshop in Kilifi, Kenya

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