Link Community Development Malawi: Reaching Our Goals

Reaching Our Goals will better enable marginalised adolescent girls in Dedza, Malawi to make decisions about their future and lead the lives they choose. The project participants, who were selected due to barriers including pregnancy, marriage, and disability, will be supported to complete an accelerated learning programme and transition into mainstream education, vocational training, or employment. Through a netball-based Empowerment Curriculum, girls will have improved capacity to make their own life choices. Delivered to girls and their male peers through netball drills, activities, and games, the Empowerment Curriculum will strengthen girls? sense of self-worth and their value, improve sexual/reproductive health and family planning knowledge, enhance understanding of gender norms, gender-based violence, and how to safely challenge gender stereotypes and negotiate roles in the household and wider community. Participants will be empowered to report gender-based violence and know how to access key services. They will be able to identify their ambitions and the necessary steps to achieve these. Training and induction to Village Savings and Loan groups, cooperatives, entrepreneurship, and income-generating activities will expand girls? knowledge of and access to education, training and work opportunities. Girls and key allies such as headteachers, Mother Groups, and community leaders will be supported to work together to promote marginalised girls? rights and choices. Girls? immediate families (parents, husbands and parents-in-law) will have a broader understanding of suitable activities, including for those who are head of household, married, and have caring responsibilities. Netball tournaments will enhance girls? capacities and community support, while community and district government leaders will develop skills in Sport for Change. Working through established community and government structures, with project participants at the forefront of strategy development and delivery, will bring about longer-term change.

Programme: Levelling the Field: Empowering Women and Girls through Sport

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