Terang’Aby, a ground-breaking all-female sport and education academy
An initiative by Aby Gaye
Aby Gaye is a French-Senegalese professional basketball player for the Basket Landes club. With a determination that shone through from a young age, she graduated from Sciences Po. She founded Terang'Aby, an association that works for the education and awareness-raising of Senegalese girls through sport.
Launched in 2018, the Terang'Aby basketball camp aims to educate girls through sport and create opportunities for them to evolve at the highest level. Different themes, the main one being the fight against skin depigmentation, are chosen at each edition in order to raise awareness on issues of Senegalese society and ensure their emancipation.
Context
The initiative is driven by the need to empower girls in Senegalese society, which is sometimes hierarchical with respect to gender, skin colour, social class, etc.
Through the promotion of women’s empowerment, the importance of schooling and sex education, and the sharing of core values, the objective is to encourage girls to become ambitious, responsible women.
A local sports coaching programme ensures that the most talented individuals can seize the opportunity to play at the highest level. Each edition of the annual Terang’Aby basketball camp focuses on three themes:
- Basketball: using the sport as a tool to champion the empowerment of girls
- Education: improving knowledge and changing mentalities
- Awareness-raising: preventing major public health problems in Senegal
Goals
- Foster girls’ empowerment and develop their knowledge and leadership skills
- Tackle stigmatisation and develop perseverance, discipline and self-confidence
- Promote girls’ education and gender equality
Activities
- Organisation of basketball camps in order to pass on to the young girls who will in turn become ambassadors and set up local initiatives with their peers
- Workshops on leadership and entrepreneurship training to empower girls
- Building the monthly Terang’Aby days in the future to follow a group throughout the year
- Recruiting and and formation of the supervisory staff
- Raising awareness and supporting young girls against stigma and senegalese society’s problems
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Impacts
- More than 40 young girls are identified and trained at each edition
- 8 basketball training centres mobilized in the region of Thiès (Senegal)
- 40 young girls who will be able to raise their awareness
- Nearly 100 girls trained and educated since the first edition in 2018
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Location
Senegal
Project led by
Foundation Terang'Aby
Start date
2018
Project status
Project to support
Sustainable development goals
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