The project "Football and Love for Everyone" will give unique opportunity to girls from rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina to play football, and not only that but through this project, for the first time in our community, Roma girls will be included in social life and sports activities, and they will become part of our amateur football team "New Woman". Also, on this way we will give great contribution to the gender equality in our community and our country.
In our local community (Semizovac - Bosnia and Herzegovina) there is no women's football club, because of the prejudice that football is not for girls. Economically underdeveloped and very patriarchal, our environment does not give women space to develop personal capacities and freedoms. We have a plan on how to change that, and we have been working on it for 4 years.
With project "Football and Love for Everyone" we will gather new girls who want to play football, especially Roma girls, provide them with one-year free trainings and free sports equipment, and prepare them for entering into the football world. On this way we will create equal opportunities for girls as boys have, and send a message to a wider audience that football is not just a men's game.
This project is the foundation of gender equality in our local community and the start position for girls who want to play football professionally. It is easily possible that with such our work in a few next years we will create a professional football team, and that will be a historic moment in our community.
