Following the Impact of the International Sport Connection- Growing the Game for Girls Visits Gulu with Girls Kick It!

International Sport Connection Assistant Director Lisa Berg demonstrates soccer skills for the coaches and girls in Gulu.

 

Assistant Director of International Sport Connection, Lisa Berg, and Women’s National Coach, Majidah Nantanda (a 2010 ISC Trained Coach) visited Gulu in October of 2012.  The Northern Region of Uganda has suffered from the war of Joseph Kony and his rebels that involved child abductions and mass murders.  Many programs have started in the Gulu district to bring aid and support to the people.  

 

Girls in Gulu loved getting the chance to play and learn from the International Sport Connection Coaches.

 For three days, Coach Majidah and Coach Lisa Berg partnered with Girls Kick It, a local non-profit program that connects coaches with girls at different primary schools and brings life skills training to women and girls once a month.  Coach Majidah and Coach Lisa visited 5 schools while in Gulu.  

ISC Assistant Director Lisa Berg meets a new friend in the village.

ISC Coaches visited the Awach Community.

ISC Coach and National Team Coach Majidah Nantanda tells her story of how soccer has helped her stay in school.

Girls in Gulu listen carefully to the words of the ISC Coaches.

ISC Assistant Director gives advice to the young girls about how soccer can help them stay healthy, stay in school, and enjoy opportunities.

The International Sport Connection Coaches inspired girls by sharing their personal stories of how soccer can be a way to build self-confidence, be healthy, and help them stay in school.  Coach Majidah and Coach Lisa also took the girls to the field and demonstrated basics of the game of soccer.

ISC Coach Majidah gets introduced to girls in Gulu.

ISC Coach Majidah cheers on the Gulu girls during the training session.

ISC Assistant Director mentors local coaches in Gulu about how to conduct training sessions.

Girls in Gulu try their hands at some soccer skills with the visiting ISC Coaches.

The girls in Gulu loved trying heading!

ISC Coach Majidah Nantanda describes her experience giving back to her community and improving opportunities for the next generation of girl soccer players in her country:

ISC Coach Majidah Nantanda tells girls in Gulu her story of how she started playing soccer.

"It is an honor to give back to my country.  This has been an opportunity for me to get out at the grassroot level and teach and mentor new talents.  I love getting a chance to counsel young girls and share my story to inspire the young girls to stay healthy, stay in school, and to improve their talents.  It has been a great thing that with the International Sport Connection we are able to do projects like this."

ISC Coach Majidah was excited to find girls playing soccer at the school we visited.

ISC Assistant Director Lisa Berg discusses ways to empower girls and create new opportunities for girls soccer in local schools with the director of the school they visited.

ISC Assistant Director Lisa Berg, ISC trained coach Joseph, and Girls Kick It Representative Hilary enjoying their visit at St. Joesph's Primary School in Gulu.

ISC trained coach Joseph on the way to visit a girls' training session on the best transportation means in Gulu- the boda-boda.

Some of the destinations the ISC Coaches visited in Gulu took 40 minutes to reach on the dusty motorcycle rides!