Grassroot Soccer

Wonder City: Becoming a Female Superhero

By Jenn 22/10/2015 29/10/2015 Gender Binaries, Mobile ICT4D

by Jenn Warren

While research online and mobile gaming for social change for my organisation, Grassroot Soccer, and a potential project we may do in 2016-2017, I came across this innovative game that attempts to encourage female empowerment and independence for adolescent girls ages 8-13.

Games for Change calls Wonder City “a companion to the independent documentary film Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” by filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and aims to provide adolescent girls with a game in which they can become female superheroes and discover their preferred superpower and “style of power” [1].

Siyakhona: We Can Do it Ourselves

By Jenn 13/10/2015 24/10/2015 Participatory Media, Participatory Video

by Jenn Warren

Through my work with Grassroot Soccer South Africa, I learnt about this interesting citizen journalism project that took place at the GRS-managed Alexandra Football for Hope Centre around the 2010 World Cup [1]. In collaboration with Hillside Digital Trust, Siyakhona Africa was created by citizens from the Alexandra Township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a means to further their voices and shares important news and issues within the community.

Click through to watch a video by citizen journalist Suzan Khosa that highlights the serious issue of rape in the Alexandra Township.

#YouthVoices

By Jenn 01/10/2015 11/10/2015 Public Voices

by Yamkela Nqweniso

I was born in Cape Town, and I studied primary school at Luleka. That is when I was introduced to Grassroot Soccer. I was still young then, I was 10 and now I’m 15. I wanted to get involved because I wanted to be part of Grassroot Soccer, trying to build a new generation that will be free from HIV, and to be on the positive and the safe side.

#ShoutingBack with Sport

By Jenn 14/09/2015 10/10/2015 Public Voices

Sonwabise Dick coaches a group of young people in Manchester City, UK, on life skills, gender equality and HIV awareness.

by Athiphila Sidondi and Sonwabise Dick

On 29 June 2015, the Cape Town media barely covered a terrible tragedy at Osi’s Tavern in Khayelitsha, in which eight young women died in a stampede. Yet only days prior, a non-fatal shark attack in the Eastern Cape received worldwide attention.

What is the value of young, black, females in the media, and in South Africa especially?

Tag: Grassroot Soccer

Siyakhona: We Can Do it Ourselves

#YouthVoices

#ShoutingBack with Sport

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