Kromdraai women competing in mini world cup
The local Kromdraai girls' soccer team is fighting for equality in their community.
The Kromdraai Football Without Borders U/15 girls’ took part in the Global Goals World Cup this past weekend in Alexandra.
The Global Goals World Cup is an international initiative that started in Denmark. Teams are made up of a minimum of five players and a maximum of eight players.
Each team has to choose one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They then have to create awareness about the goal they chose.
These awareness campaigns also counted toward their points at the end of the tournament. Points are given to whoever scores the most goals, the team with the best support, their outfits and the awareness that they have raised.
The Kromdraai women will be competing against teams from SA, parts of Africa and Europe.
The women were chosen to take part of the tournament because of a girl empowerment programme called Lezintombiziyakhona, meaning ‘These Girls Can’ which the girls started.
Lezintombiziyakhona provides girls with life skills classes, after school educational help and gives them the opportunity to take part in different sports. The aim is to create awareness for gender equality in their community. The team wrote a poem about gender equality and performed it for their community in order to raise awareness about the issue.
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