Seprojoven joins sportanddev

Seprojoven is a Costa Rican organisation that uses football and recreation as a tool for the development and education of children and adolescents. The aim is to help young people to defend and promote gender equality, social fairness and their human rights, while improving their organisational abilities, self-management and personal development.

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The Copa Indigena Project uses football as an educational tool for Costa Rica’s indigenous communities. 90 per cent of the country’s indigenous people are affected by poverty, and many are geographically and socially isolated. The project is working towards addressing this problem.

Football can help in the development of social skills, self-confidence and leadership, and participants in the project are encouraged to take action to preserve their cultural identities, defend their rights and fight discrimination. The project develops a network of indigenous adolescents, encouraging them to communicate with others in different regions.

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Seprojoven’s other major project, Liga Fem, also emphasises the development of social skills and other abilities that can help an individual to improve their circumstances. Participants are adolescent girls that live in communities with high rates of poverty, few opportunities and many cases of family violence.

The project is organised through a women’s street football league designed to empower women and girls, with cooperative games organised, and information on women’s rights distributed through the network.

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