Transform a Girl's Life Through Soccer

Seyni Ndir Seck, our President, was at FIFA headquarters for International Women’s Day- March 8, 2016. Seyni traveled to Zurich to represent Ladies’ Turn and women’s soccer in Senegal at FIFA’s Women’s Football and Leadership Conference on March 7, 2016- right before International Women’s Day.

Seyni met some stars and felt like a star. The conference presented the perfect opportunity for Seyni to share our experience with Ladies' Turn and hear from important leaders on stratgies for promoting women's soccer.  It was even was translated into French so Seyni could listen to anglophone participants- like former US women's team forward and international goals record holder, Abby Wambach.

Seyni met Lydia Nsekera from Burundi who became the first woman to be elected to the FIFA Executive Committee and Brigitte Henriques who represents the Caribbean. They discussed how to navigate national soccer federations powerful lobbies to ensure women's soccer is taken seriously. Seyni chatted with Brigitte Henriques, the head of women's soccer at the French Soccer Federation about what strategies she was using to increase support for women's soccer in France and what could work in Senegal. Billie Jean King was even there in solidarity talking about her experience as a female althete!

Seyni returned home to Dakar fresh with new ideas and armed with new knowledge. We hope that our two-pronged approach of on the ground work and international advocacy can continue to advance women's soccer in Senegal.

We also cheered the news that FIFA named Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura from Senegal to be FIFA’s first ever women Secretary General. We think this can be the beginning of a new era for women’s soccer.

So thank you as always for your support. We are living in exciting times! 

Nio far- In Solidarity,

Jennifer and the Ladies' Turn Team