By George Obua | Project Leader
Kole Intellectual Forum in its program of Home Economics has learnt deeply that: sport can empower the participants, as has been noted that, over the last decade, sport has increasingly been used as a tool for empowering youth in developing countries. However, opportunities to participate in sport are often designed for, and dominated by, boys and men. Gender inequity and discrimination remain deeply entrenched and widely tolerated throughout the world, resulting in a devastating and cascading list of global social, economic and development costs. Limitations placed upon adolescent girls and young women restrict them from fulfilling their potential and play a significant role in perpetuating the world’s poorest economies.
That is why Kole Intellectual Forum has included sports in its program of Home Economics because the organization is aware that: the program can empower, particularly their girls, and can make them to challenge that gender norms that has been negatively practiced in Africa and world over for centuries. In this participation, the program is expected to offer to the girls an opportunity to build their self-esteem, courage and self-efficacy and it will the place where they can take up leadership positions and through sport programs girls are designed to strongly believe in their own ability increases; that will translate into everyday life – encourages them to take initiative, raise their voices and attempt things they never assumed were possible. Community members on the other hand are expected to see girls achieve in sport, they would often recognize their potential to achieve in other domains.
Lastly, sport can be a powerful tool and platform to strengthen social ties, networks, engage the community and promote positive messages. In short, wins on the field translate into wins off the field – One Win Leads to Another.
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