International Day of the Girl 2019

Our projects in India, Swaziland and Zimbabwe were celebrating #InternationalDayOfTheGirl on the 16th October.

At Khelo Rugby with more than 500 girls playing & coaching their day was unscripted & unstoppable! Check it out here: https://khelokhelo.com/2019/10/16/girl-force-unscripted-and-unstoppable/

For Skrum, their tag rugby tournament was so popular they've already started coaching more teams for the next one!

And Tag Rugby Trust smashed it out the park with a training session full of determination as well a rousing team talk from Ms Ndlovu, showing how far they've come since the start of the year #ThisGirlCan

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Lovely to see so many girls active and enjoying the sport of Rugby and being empowered.

From: Jill Golding

Published: 30 October 2019

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