Girls Link Initiative Through Sport

aimed at engaging girls in leadership, advocacy, SRHR, policies and laws training using sport as an entry point

Kick GBV Out Campaign: 16 Days of Activism 2024

With funds from Irish Aid for the Community of Practice Koinadugu through Her Future Foundation, to raise awareness of gender-based violence against women and girls in Koinadugu. Network AID Africa supports the replication of a female football match in Koinadugu under the campaign: Kick GBV Out. The event was used to engage girls in the football discipline on menstrual hygiene, sexual harassment and protection laws and referral pathway.

 

Spectators were encouraged to allow girls to choose their discipline irrespective of their gender and to collectively protect the interests of women and girls.

A series of activities were implemented, including community outreach series, religious houses engagement (Mosque & Church), school sensitisation, public jogging with the support of RSLAF 14 Battalion. The campaign reaches approximately 15,000 people on key SGBV messages.

Hill Top Community Annual School Sport Meet 2025 

Hill Top Community School is the only Government Assisted School in Hill Top Community, with 900+ pupils, and is surrounded by several private schools. The annual sports meet presents an opportunity to sensitise parents, pupils and house supporters to school-related gender-based violence and abuse, the importance of physical exercise in strengthening mental health, and the need to perfect their sporting talent as a means of pursuing a career path alongside education.

 

 

 

 

Female Comic Football Match - Campaign Against SGBV 2022

Funded by Irish Aid, Plan International and Caritas Freetown. Hill Top Community for the first time witnessed their girls playing football in advocating for a safe school, a safe community, water, a hospital, and teenage pregnancy, and 

 

The female football comic match gave birth to the Girls Link Initiative Through Sport to continuously engage girls. This one activity has yielded the functionality of the community leadership structure that collapsed for years, the construction of a temporary zinc clinic, demanding accountability on community projects and school activities, and the forming of the Parent Advocacy Support Group