Kick GBV Out Campaign: 16 Days of Activism 2024

With funds from Irish Aid for the Community of Practice Koinadugu, through Her Future Foundation, raised 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, protection laws, and referral pathways.

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.

Health Walk To Keep Fit & Balanced

In keeping fit, four of the Girls Link Initiative embarked on a 14-kilometre health walk (to and fro Old School Wash Car to SS Camp) to keep physically and mentally balanced. Sadly, two of the girls wore sleepers instead of sportswear. 

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.

The Girls Link Initiative Through Sport in Bombali held its maiden meeting, introducing the aims and objectives of the initiative. The initiative uses the principles of sports to promote leadership, teamwork, and confidence-building. Orphan girls and girls with disabilities form part of the initiative (Leave No One Behind). The girls participated actively and highlighted their challenges, such as limited access to educational materials, food, clothing, stigma and discrimination.

Particiapte in Fun Sporting for Leadership

Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone (GESL), in partnership with Network AID Africa, organised a fun sports for GESLIAN and Girls Link Initiative Through Sport. The event teaches leadership, courage, determination, winning collectively and oneness. Pre-mental health preparedness, safeguarding sessions and post feedback sessions were held with the girls.   

Medals were awarded for leadership, team work, sportmanship and friendliness.

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, access to water, a hospital, and saying no to teenage pregnancy. 

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