Grassroot Soccer
- I Implementer
- N Network
- R Researcher
Description
Grassroot Soccer is an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize youth in developing countries to overcome their greatest health challenges, live healthier, more productive lives, and be agents for change in their communities.
Primary Functions
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Program/Project Implementation
- Research - project evaluation
Secondary Functions
- Research - policy analysis
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Primary to secondary transition
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Early/child marriage
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Other
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Sexual harassment & coercion
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Sports
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls’ education funders
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Headquarters location(s)
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Hanover, Massachusetts, United States of America
Office location(s)
- South Africa
- United States of America
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Contacts
- Sarah Moran
- Senior Director, Development & Operations
- smoran@grassrootsoccer.org
- Grassroot Soccer
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
- Benin
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Togo
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe