Sustainability;a tools for sporting initiatives to empower women and girls
Establish a community based income generating concept that will support women and girls’ empowerment initiatives.
About You
Contact Information
Title
Ms.
First name
Dehkontee
Last name
Sayon
Your job title
Coordinator, Women's Football
Name of your organization
Football to Develop Destitute (FODEDE)
Organization type
NGO
Annual budget/currency
10,000.00USD
Location
Project Street Address
Bardnersville Junction
Project City
Gardnerville
Project Province/State
Montserrado County
Project Postal/Zip Code
N/A
Project Country
Liberia
Your idea
Choose your sport: (check all that apply)
Soccer/Football
If you chose "other" for Sport, please define in 1-2 words below
Kickball
What approach does your initiative incorporate?
Capacity Building
Year the initiative began (yyyy)
2007
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Plot your innovation within the discovery framework:
Barrier
Lack of parity in facilities, equipment and funding
Insight
Embed sports with other activities
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Name Your Project
Sustainability;a tools for sporting initiatives to empower women and girls
Describe Your Idea
Establish a community based income generating concept that will support women and girls’ empowerment initiatives.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
Establish a community based income generating concept that will support women and girls’ empowerment initiatives.
How many people does your innovation serve or plan to serve? Exactly who will benefit?
Currently FODEDE is running street soccer program with 48 female recruits in three communities and with the implementation of the project; there will be an increase of 500 beneficiaries in thirty communities. There are over 1000 women and girls languishing in various communities playing either regular football game or kickball game that is play by only women and girls in Liberia with no program put in place to develop them.
Do you have any existing partnerships? If so, please list and describe.
The Homeless World Cup Foundation is currently working on a pilot project in partnership with FODEDE, this project will run as an income generating project and funds mainly use to provide long term support to destitute women and girls empowerment initiatives through football.
In which sector do these partners work? (Check all that apply)
Citizen sector (non profits, NGOs) .
How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
A plant will be established that can filter and package drinking water, at a sufficient capacity to supply the project. This will be conveyed through an effective distribution system to be sold on the streets to customers by a workforce. The Product - it is common for filtered drinking water to be sold in sealed 500ml plastic bags in West Africa. The Vendors will be mostly women, girls and others destitute people in various Monrovia townships as they get income for themselves through sales. With this kind of system, the women and girls get employment and income from sales commission. Money generated from production is also use to support women and girls’ empowerment initiatives.
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact
Taking the women and girls away from dependency to self-reliance through molding their minds
What does impact/success look like? Please list any tangible measures of the impact of your innovation
Improve on gender equality, prepare women and girls as role model for community leadership development, community health care and increment in the number of women and girls playing/coaching football in communities and international.
Is there a chance that your project could change policy (within an institution or government)?
There are opportunities that the project change policy in Liberia, The game of women football could be taken form communities level to schools, the production and sales of safe drinking water in Liberia could save the government spending huge money on immunization to avoid or cure typhoid, cholera, diarrhea and other diseases.
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow the initiative or expand your intended impact?
The project if get it initials funding for startup, will have a perpetual existence and continue to grow and give stronger support to women empowerment initiatives to extend to other parts of Liberia.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
A complete project proposal had been prepared and submitted to the Homeless World Cup Organization for onward submission to donors who will provide funding as grant/loan to be paid back in 18 months.
Financing source
Annual budget
NIL
Annual revenue generated
NIL
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers)
NIL
What are the main barriers to financing your initiative, and how do you plan to address these barriers?
The project has no barrier as the Homeless World Cup Organization has endorsed the set up of the project waiting for funding.
What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?
There is not much challenges regardsing partnerships as both partners will be involve with running of project at a given period until local staff are trained to oversee and maintain the day to day operations using the blue print set up.
The Story
What stage is your project?
Idea phase .
What was the motivation or defining moment that led to create this innovation? Tell us the story.
The Liberia 17 years senseless civil war is evidenced by the high rate of homelessness and suffering experienced by young girls and women in our country, some using soccer as a tools to sustain themselves. The Liberian civil war can not be easily forgotten because the effect still lives with us: The civil war and government mismanagement destroyed much of Liberia's economy, especially the infrastructure in and around the capital, Monrovia. Many businesses collapsed, with investors taking capital and expertise with them, but with the conclusion of fighting and the installation of democratically-elected government in 2006, United Nation and some humanitarian organizations have come to restore some level of hope to our people but the need for safe drinking water in communities and unemployment still remains a problem, especially when the official unemployment figures calculate 85% of population are out of work, and 80% live below the poverty line ($1 per day) making it uneasy to do away with homelessness especially among our women and girls.
Please tell us about the social innovator behind this initiative
FODEDE was established in October 2007 to address the plight of the destitute people of Liberia and is using street soccer as tool to develop and change the lives of the women and girls.
FODEDE promotes street soccer awareness through coaches’ workshops, and street soccer tournaments in various townships, primarily around
Monrovia. The organization have strong links to football and has supported two of its female recriuts; Cherie Sayon and Famatta Boimah to the U S A Playing college soccer.
(Optional) To be eligible for an additional prize, please select age range
18 – 22
 | Aykan said: Hi Dehko, I am lucky to have chance to meet Mel Young (HWC) at couple of occasions and I remember him talking about this project. It is ... about this Competition Entry. - 1122 days ago read more > |
| Dehkontee said: The Liberian civil war started back in December, 1989 when I was just one and the half years old, I grow up with the circumstances that ... about this Competition Entry. - 1128 days ago read more > |
| Stu said: Hi Dehkontee, I read through your proposal and very much liked the concept you are aiming at. you mentioned that Monrovia's ... about this Competition Entry. - 1129 days ago read more > |
| Dehkontee submitted this idea. - 1130 days ago |
