The Ablekuma District in the Greater Accra Region will be benefitting from a community initiative targeted at using football and other vocational training opportunities to help adolescent girls, especially those with challenging backgrounds to have meaningful livelihoods.

A partnership between KGL Foundation Ghana and Faith Ladies football club has enabled the initiation of the Girls Action for Socio-economic transformation project.

The project aims at using sports and football as an avenue to equip young girls between the ages of 10 to 24 years with the necessary skills to enable them to develop physically, socially, and psychologically.

This should eventually improve the economic status of the girls in life. The project has also been designed to effectively engage these girls, beyond football in vocational and reproductive health activities that will enhance their ability to take the right decisions relating to their reproductive health and vocational life even after active football.

Some of the vocational training areas the girls will benefit from include, mobile phone repairs, computer repairs and solar installation.

The Chief Executive of Faith Ladies Football Club, Mr. Ebenezer Adotey Allotey was excited not only about the partnership with KGL Foundation but especially about the opportunities and benefits the project will offer the girls in the community.

“It is always disheartening to observe talents being wasted due to lack of opportunity so the partnership with KGL for me offers a glimmer of hope for the underprivileged girls in the community”.

Faith Ladies is an all-female football club offering opportunities for girls especially from challenging backgrounds to have meaningful livelihood through football.

The club has recently won the 2022 Women’s Premier Super Cup and the management of the club through this project seeks to go further to empower girls in the community to participate in healthy, safe, and inclusive football, vocational and reproductive health activities in a fun and family-oriented environment.

KGL Foundation is the corporate social responsibility arm of the KGL Group and is seeking to innovate the system of philanthropy in the country.

The organisation engages various target organisations from the grassroots to government institutions to engender positive collaborations that leads to sustainable and meaningful impact.