Location and general information
Access to Sport - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal developmentContext
Human rights have suffered a clear setback in Costa Rica in recent years, in part because of policy changes that disproportionately impact girls in informal popular settlements and indigenous communities. These populations are affected by hate speech targeting migrants, a lack of protection for indigenous peoples, the elimination of measures safeguarding LGBTQI+ pupils in schools, increasing threats from organised crime and rising rates of femicide.
Project goals
- Implement a gender-focused football methodology that promotes community-based solutions to social issues and inequality.
- Foster individual and collective leadership among vulnerable girls.
- Build national and international alliances to promote widespread adoption of strategy’s for inclusive, equitable and diverse
Project content
Working from a feminist perspective and with an awareness of intersectional discrimination, the project will deliver safe spaces for sport, social activities and educational initiatives. In addition, it will develop a gender-focused social and sporting methodology that enables players to identify the challenges they face in their communities as girls, indigenous people, migrants or people with diverse sexual identities, and to find collective solutions to these challenges. The project’s activities on and off the pitch will include social events to be held during the next two World Cups.
Partners
