By Jonathan Hannay | Project Leader
The year always starts slowly in Brazil as being in the Southern Hemisphere, January is the middle of the summer holidays. School started up again during the month of February and children and young people started coming back to playing rugby.
This year it is the girls leading the way with a solid group training on Monday and Wendesday afternoons. It is very important to their lives, as Simone says that since starting rugby, "my life has changed completely, the way I behave now is totally different from before... Before I used to be very timid and was afraid of expressing my opinions. Today I don't listen to people who say I shouldn't play football or principally rugby, today I follow my own beliefs."
Our coaches also went into a local middle school and gave taster sessions to over 500 students during their regular PE classes. It was wonderful that we had an immedite effect with 15 new 11 and 12 year olds appearing to start training the following Monday and best of all, 9 of them were girls!
With your support, we can make ever more impact in the lives of children and young people in our community and especially developing greater gender equality.
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