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The GoSister’s 6th Annual Tournament |
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Friday, 21 August 2009 |
The weekend of the 15th and 16th of August saw the 6th Annual Go Sisters Tournament, held and organised by EduSports.
Go Sister’s is an EduSport initiative which that aims at empowering girls by training and equipping them with skills and knowledge to pursue equality. It strives to empower girls by building physical resources, giving social recognition and challenging some traditional gender myths.
The 1st tournament was held in 2002 with EMIMA from Tanzania taking part. Since then the event has been held annually.
The tournament saw the coming together a number of teams across the 7 provinces of Zambia. Young girls in age groups of Under 12’s and 15’s competed in Basketball, Netball, Football and Volleyball events.
All the games were competed in a fair and honourable manner, however it was ‘Right To Play’ who eventually pulled through a penalty shoot out to lift the football trophy whilst ‘Kamwal’ won the volleyball. ‘Kalingalinga’ Prospered in the netball as did ‘Livingstone’s Go Sisters’ who had enough in the tank to see off ‘Chawama Go Sisters’ in the basketball final.
Peer leaders from all the places attended to spur on their sides and later commented on the value of events such as Go Sisters.
Muila Mutepuka of Livingstone stated it was her belief that events such Go Sisters helped inspire and encourage good behaviour, discipline and fair play within sport.
Patience Mwansa who on the day was representing Chilenje said that the intiative makes girls more confident, not only on the field, but in life through the power of sport.
Likewise Cezarin Phiri a peer leader at Kalingalinga believes that events where many people come together in such fashion helps all the peer leaders develop and improve by seeing a range of various coaching styles.
Kafue’s Marvis Mapenda believes that empowered in crucial and that by attending Go Sisters it shows that women can do just as well as men in all areas of life whilst Gerry Kasongo of Kazerngula Boauder believes that the element of competition helps raise standards in performance and ability in life and in sport.
The event was attended by special guest Debbie Lye head of International Development at UKSport, whose work back in the UK helps EduSport operate programmes such as Go Sisters.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 21 August 2009 )
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