A Ganar in Africa

The beauty of the A Ganar methodology lies in its adaptability. Far from a one-size-fits-all approach, this sport for development methodology can be tailored to diverse local realities around the globe. This is precisely what happened in February 2011 when the A Ganar (Vencedoras) team from Brazil traveled to Senegal to lead a training of trainers workshop for thirteen facilitators and support staff from the neighboring country of Guinea. The trainees were from various organizations supported by the International Labour Organization’s Youth to Youth Program. 

Thanks to this south-to-south knowledge transfer, the facilitators will now apply what they have learned to their youth entrepreneurship and livelihoods programs. “Through sports, I hope to find a path to provoke the social-political changes that we want for youth,” declared Mouloukous Souleymanne of the NGO Support for the Formation and Rural Promotion in Guinea. The facilitators were from five different regions of Guinea. Together, they spoke seven different languages and represented four different religions. Now they all speak the language of “A Ganar”.