In Chiapas, women's conditions are limited in their access to education, health, recreation and public spaces. Women from an early age must engage in housework and be prepared for the fulfillment of the role of being mothers. We find sports as a tool that improves development and physical well-being and strengthens leadership, teamwork and companionship. To achieve our goal of empowering more than 50 indigenous young women, we need to form in basketball.
In Chiapas the conditions of women are limited in their access to education, health, recreation and public spaces. Women from an early age must dedicate themselves to household chores and be prepared to fulfill the role of being mothers. This situation affects the high rates of teenage pregnancy and marriages at an early age, a phenomenon that in many cases arises from negative cultural practices such as the normalization of sexual abuse and gender inequality.
We find sports as a tool that improves development and physical well-being and strengthens leadership, teamwork and companionship. We need to form basketball teams and provide them with professional sports advice to increase their skills, in addition to the acquisition of the necessary sports equipment and the rehabilitation of the courts in community and school spaces within the regions of Los Altos and La Selva, in Chiapas.
The project empowers indigenous young people, so that when they go out on the basketball courts, they are also capable of generating transformations in their own lives and their communities; acquiring better tools so that tomorrow they can see life like a basketball court, free to do what they are truly passionate about.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
