Futebol dá forca - Football gives strength

By Cecilia Andrén Nyström — With football as communicative tool, Mozambican girls learn to stand up for their rights. Over 3000 girls are active but lack material!

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The project Futebol dá força was started by the 20-year old Swedish Cecilia Andrén Nystrom in the beginning of 2012. As a former football player, referee and coach for girls in Sweden she knew that football is not just a sport but can have a huge social impact if it's used in the right way. However, she didn't understand how huge.. Now the project is growing into a nationwide movement with soon over 3000 active girls!

We use football as a communicative tool to change attitudes and pre-conceived ideas in local communities all over Mozambique. Our coaches are young voluntary women and men educated as football coaches, but also in human rights and sexual & reproductive health. With this knowledge our goal is to prevent early pregnancies, HIV/AIDS and sexual & domestic violence. The self-confidence that the girls get on the field will help them in their daily struggle to live the lives they want to live and to have the courage to follow their dreams!

The project has grown from one team to 26 teams with over 540 girls integrated in the project. It is now a collaboration between the Mozambican organization Lurdes Mutola Foundation, the international Football for Worldwide Unity, the Mozambican Football Federation and the Mozambican Ministries of Education and Youth & Sports. We are now educating 120 more coaches in all provinces in the country through the Dutch Football Federation and will then have 148 coaches in total with over 3000 girls active training football and life skills.

But for this they need material. Upon completing the coaching and life skills education our coaches receive a start-kit with material: 4 balls, 20 cones, 10 bibs, 1 whistle, 1 stopwatch and 1 ball pump. With this they then continue with their fight for girls' rights both on and outside the field. But for this, we need your help! Help us raise the money for our newly educated coaches and help our movement grow. Choose to make a difference. We know at least 3000 girls that will be forever grateful if you do. Thank you!

More information: www.ffwu.org or email cecilia@ffwu.org

(Cecilia’s Swedish blog:
http://cecilia-mozambique.blogspot.com)

Read what the press says:
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/1-5

http://www.metro.se/kolumner/hillevi-wahl-traningen-raddar-tjejerna
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Project location: Mozambique, Mozambique


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Cecilia Andrén Nyström

My name is Cecilia Andrén Nyström and I'm 21 years old. I don't have a University degree (yet), I don't have a job and no capital - but even though I don't have the best prerequisites I've managed to create a job that I like and that makes me happy. And it makes around 3000 other young women happy as well. I've started the project Futebol dá força. It is a project in Mozambique, the world's fourth most poor country, where I by using football as a tool increase girls' self confidence and educate them about their rights, sexual & reproductive health, family planning and how to prevent HIV/AIDS and sexual & domestic violence. In less than a year the project has grown from idea to practice and now has 148 young voluntary coaches who train over 3000 girls in football and life skills all over Mozambique.

Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Website: http://cecilia-mozambique.blogspot.com/

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Right Now

  • $605
    raised of $7000 goal
  • 14
    backers
  • This project has ended
  • At least $ 200 needs to be raised, otherwise all funds will be returned.

Give 20 or more

  • 8 backers
  • For $20 you donate one football to one of our 148 teams in Mozambique! In return you will get a drawing from one of our 3000 girls integrated in the project. She has drawn her dreams - which she now with Futebol dá força dares to dream.

Give 40 or more

  • 4 backers
  • For $40 you donate two footballs to one of our 148 teams in Mozambique! In return you will get a drawing from one of our 3000 girls integrated in the project. She has drawn her dreams - which she now with Futebol dá força dares to dream.

Give 80 or more

  • 1 backers
  • For $80 you donate four footballs to one of our 148 teams in Mozambique! By doing so you have fulfilled their quota of footballs. Do you want to follow "your" team? Email cecilia@ffwu.org to find out which team is now playing with your footballs and to get regular updates from the coach.

    To thank you, you will get a drawing from one of our 3000 girls integrated in the project. She has drawn her dreams - which she now with Futebol dá força dares to dream.

Give 120 or more

  • 1 backers
  • For $120 you donate one start-kit to one of our 148 teams in Mozambique! By doing so you have enabled them to start practicing. Do you want to follow "your" team? Email cecilia@ffwu.org to find out which team is now playing with your footballs and to get regular updates from the coach.

    To thank you, you will get a drawing from one of our 3000 girls integrated in the project. She has drawn her dreams - which she now with Futebol dá força dares to dream.

Give 2000 or more

  • For $2000 you donate start-kits to ten of our 148 teams in Mozambique! By doing so you have enabled them to start practicing. Do you want to follow "your" teams? Email cecilia@ffwu.org to find out which teams are now playing with your footballs and to get regular updates from the coach.

    To thank you, you will get a drawing from one of our 3000 girls integrated in the project. She has drawn her dreams - which she now with Futebol dá força dares to dream.

Help in other ways (crowdsourcing)

  • We also need football jerseys, shorts, socks and shoes in order to start a Futebol dá força-league in Mozambique. According to the Mozambican Football Federation's rules all players are obliged to have this equipment in order to play. Today, if lucky, some of the players use a sock on their right foot to get some protection from the scorching hot sand and the ball..

    We need three laptops for our full-time employed staff, to ease the burden of administration and organization. Currently the three of them share one laptop, that unfortunately has seen better days…
    We need companies who take on their Corporate Social Responsibility with commitment and passion. Interested? Email cecilia@ffwu.org for more information

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