Right to Play

The Trust received a fellowship grant from Women Win whose strategic objectives are
1. To support innovative, high quality and sustainable sports programmes to empower girls and women
a. To identify and support implementation of sports activities
b. To identify and support fellows
c. To strengthen organizational capacity
d. To demonstrate impact of sport as an empowerment strategy

2. To advocate for and create a social movement around sport for gender equality
a. Through partners influence institutions to create safe spaces and infrastructures for high
quality sports programmes for girls and women
b. Mobilise resources
c. Create a platform for partners and stakeholders to promote sport as a strategy.

The fellowship grant was awarded to Wadzanai Katsande the Director of the Edmund Garwe Trust to enable her to bring social change and/or to contribute to the increased awareness around sport as a strategy for the empowerment of girls and women.

The Trust's mission is to bring hope and reintroduce fun into the life of the girl child head of household, orphan and/or vulnerable child.

The Trust's vision is to ensure that children's rights are respected and upheld such that children, particularly orphans and vulnerable children, gain access to their basic necessities and entitlements.

Activities for the fellowship begun in October with the identification of the girls who then chose the sport which they would like to play. The girls chose netball as the sport of choice. The girls will both play sport and get involved in a support group/girl talk group that enables them to share and interact with children in similar situations.

It is important to note that the majority of orphans are orphaned because of HIV/AIDS and some of them are compromised. The Trust would like to provide them with counselling and encourage them to go for voluntary testing. The Trust would also like to teach the children life skills which include proper nutrition and etiquette. We welcome advice and would appreciate help and support particularly in finding low cost solutions to improving the girls' health.