Let’s Ladies Play
Project supported by The Estuary Basketball League
Ligue de Basketball de l’Estuaire (LIBABE) is a nonprofit association acting in the sporting world. It aims at promoting, developing, organising and controlling basketball practice among the young.
Let’s Ladies Play (2LP) is a basketball initiation and development programme to revive women’s basketball in Gabon. It mainly targets young girls at a young age to introduce and nurture in them a love of the sporting practice. The project is also for coaches of the female gender to build their skills as trainers and obtain quality local educational resources. The project’s global amount is €48,000.
Context
Gabon has about 2.11 million inhabitants, 54% of whom being under 25. Anxious about the fulfilment of so big a number of youngsters, the National Office for the Development of Sport and Culture has drawn the National Development Plan, which has set several major objectives among which we can note the use of sport to promote the local populations’ well-being, social cohesion and more broadly the economic and social development of Gabon. Sports participation is particularly harder outside the academic framework of specific sports academies.
The Estuary Basketball League (EBL) is introducing a girl-specific sporting programme in response to the national demand for basketball with girls as the project’s main target.
Objectives
- Motivating and animating girls’ practice of basketball as from a young age;
- Assisting the clubs in the creation of women sections in their team workforce;
- Involving and equipping the women in the management of the (basketball) team;
- Assisting the clubs in the implementation of a business model, to help them create their own resources for funding their activities.
Activities
- Organising introductory and advanced basketball sessions;
- Organising advanced training camps for the best young girls and for the coaches;
- Training partner club managers on the strategies for implementing a business model.
Impacts
- 100 players and female coaches shall be equipped.
- Young girls practising sport regularly (all year long)
- Detection of young girl players in the schools by the partner clubs
- Integration of young girl players from the schools in the 6 partner clubs.
Photo credit : Acting Today to Change Tomorrow
Location
Gabon
Project led by
Ligue de Basketball de l’Estuaire – LIBABE
Start date
Date to be defined
Project status
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