Goal in Three Parts

During the months of May, June, July and August the actions of the "Goal for Equality" project were taking form and drummed up interest of young people and the community. Currently girls represent 30% of participants and the dialogue about gender equality has been permeating all activities, which we consider a great conquest.

Other points worth mentioning:

- Increasing the number of people served. In the beginning, we predicted to attend 150 teenagers for futsal activities and nowadays we attend 202.

- Moreover of football activities, several others activities were offered to young people in that period: fencing and Frisbee workshops; sidewalks for sports centers; research about Olympics games and cultural features of different participating countries.

- The open events for community (walking, leisure street and Leisure activities on Saturdays) we guarantee the activities which waken interest in the female public, encouraging and increasing its share.

- Girls realise and understand better their rights and their capacity for social changing, besides being possible to look on people from the community more informed about the women’s rights and gender equality.

Although the period is full of conquest, challenges exist. The resistance to dialogue about gender equality, especially from boys, is still common. Some boys still avoid talking about this theme. They come from parent’s background based on a super-masculinity culture even family and community. As a consequence, the challenge today is inserted to us is the sensitization of this group for discussion about the girls equal participation in all of subjects and activities. We know it takes time to get attitudes changing, especially when those are sustained in cultural issues, but we won’t conserve efforts to strike this goal.