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by Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem

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Project Details

What is the Women’s Football Program all About?
Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s Women’s Football Program is the only existing framework for girls and young women to play structured football in the entire area of Jerusalem. Any girl from Jerusalem or its vicinity who feel passionate about football is invited to take her first steps either at the Club’s “Neighborhoods League" or in the Club’s girls' beginner team (ages 8-11). From there, they can progress to the Club’s girls team (ages 11-14), a highly esteemed team coming second in the Israeli Championship for the last two years. Today more than 80 girls participate in the Women’s Football Program. 20 fans are involved in running the program, each spending 10 hours a month of voluntary work.
In the Neighborhood league the girls are provided with:
o Two practices a week for each team with an accredited coach
o A weekly tutor session in a learning centre
o Monthly festive tournament encouraging fair play and sportsmanship
In the Club's girls' teams' the girls are provided with:
o Two practices a week for each group with an accredited female coach
o Weekly games as scheduled by the football association.
Our Goals
• To provide girls and women from all over Jerusalem the opportunity to train and play football
• To fight the exclusion of women from Jerusalem’s public sphere by involving them in the city’s football activities
• To promote equal opportunity in sport regardless of sex and gender
• To enhance community building of women from all around the city
• To become Jerusalem’s female football hub open to all girls and women
Our Impact
• Our Women’s Football Program and the Public Relation around it mitigate the dangerous impact of the multiple campaigns to exclude women from Jerusalem’s public sphere.

• Our girls and young women are being empowered on a daily basis, while learning about themselves and their strengths through physical exercises and football matches.
• Our girls and young women, coming from distant neighborhoods from all around Jerusalem usually with no real chance of getting acquainted, are now provided with the opportunity of getting to know one another through football matches, while building mutual trust and creating close ties.
• Our girls and young women are educated to care about universal values such as pluralism, tolerance, equal rights, brotherhood and sisterhood.
• Our girls and young women are taught to respect one another by promoting teamwork and resolving conflicts through patience and dialogue.
• Our girls and young women formulate their own little communities, joining hands with their peers and learning to fight together for equal opportunity regardless of sex and gender.
Our Plans for the coming year
• Increasing by 20% the number of participants In the next school year (2014-2015) with the vision of formulating Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s adult women football by 2019.
• Promoting Collaborations with communities in the vicinity of Jerusalem: Efrat and Abu Ghosh, Ma'ale Adumim and 'Ein Rafa.
• Encouraging young women to become accredited coaches in different frameworks and particularly in the Club’s programs.
• Formulating for the first time young women's team (ages 14-18) from all around Jerusalem thereby creating a continuum of girls’ teams from the age of 8 to the age of 18, with the vision of formulating Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s adult women football team by 2019.

Get Involved and Make a Change!
The cost for each of the children is 500$ dollars (+-2,000 NIS) per year
Expense Cost in USD
Uniform & equipment 55
Transportation 125
Coach salaries 320
Total 500

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Monday, Dec 31, 2018

http://www.katamon.co.il/news.asp?id=1584

Po Box 1874,
Jerusalem,
Yerushalayim 90805
Israel.

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