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On February 27, 2010 the first three pools played their matches in Moving the Goalposts' Secondary School Football Tournament for Girls. The teams that...Read more
Moving the Goalposts - a girls' football and development organization in coast province - is going to the World Cup in South Africa 2010. Moving the Goalposts (MTG) will participate in the...Read more
About MTG
Girls and women in Kilifi District, Kenya are some of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people. Low retention in school, early and unintended pregnancies and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS trap them in a cycle of poverty. Moving the Goalposts Kilifi (MTG) uses football to empower girls and young women, helping them to fulfill their potential both on and off the football field.
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Playing by Their Rules is an account of the author’s journey into the girls’ worlds -- a unique telling of stories that are at times shocking, sometimes heartwarming but mostly enlightening for those of us who’d like to know more about the teenage lives of girls in East Africa.
Secondary school tournament has kicked off
On February 27, 2010 the first three pools played their matches in Moving the Goalposts' Secondary School Football Tournament for Girls. The teams that proceed to the finals on March 13 at the MTG field in Mnarani are Dzitsoni Secondary School, Kilifi Mixed Secondary School and Ganze Secondary School. Two other group winners will come from two other pools whose matches will be played on March 6 at Kizurini Primary and Secondary School at Rabai Secondary School on March 7.
Back to pads
Our goal was (and maybe still is?) a simple one: make affordable sanitary pads available to more girls in East Africa, starting with Kilifi in coast province, Kenya. That is where MTG is based and that is where we have seen the problem of girls feeling embarrassed, shy, uncomfortable and hindered when they have their periods becuase they cannot afford to buy sanitary pads. Instead they use cloth, cotton wool, pieces of mattress or anything they can find to soak up the blood. It impacts on their school and home lives and it also stops some of them from playing sport.
Sarah Forde Interview on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
Sarah Forde talks to BBC Radio 4 listeners about Moving the Goalposts, life in Kilifi and menstruation. Listen to it on the BBC Radio website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2010_05_mon.shtml. (Please note: the audio file requires Real Media player or similar software.
Bango at the Baobab
Most staff in MTG are already on leave after the planning meeting for January and the end of year party - a great event on the beach at the Baobab hotel. I had planned to make a small thank you speech to all staff and board members but once the music was on (Bango all the way) there was no turning back. The girls stopped swinging their thangs only long enough to receive their end of year presents in a flurry of cheering and exuberance and then it was back to the serious issue of dancing. The fashion show topped off proceedings - with professionalism from the Nigerian Three
