The historic CAF Licence D Coaching course for feminine inmates on the Nsawam Female Prison has come to an emotional finish.
The 8-Day coaching course noticed 30 contributors made up of 25 inmates and 5 jail officers endure numerous course fashions each in idea and sensible workouts on the soccer discipline.
All the contributors obtained each their CAF accredited Licence D Coaching and CPR & First AID certificates on the finish of this system after passing the evaluation take a look at.
The CAF Football for Reform program goals to supply feminine inmates with CAF-accredited teaching {qualifications}, bettering their job prospects and supporting their reintegration into society after their launch from Prison. This initiative highlights the transformative potential of soccer as a instrument for rehabilitation and optimistic change.
The emotional level got here when an inmate, a consultant of the course contributors, thanked God, CAF, GFA and the Prison authorities for making this system doable. “I’m very completely satisfied at the moment and never shy I’m in jail as a result of at the moment I’m a coach, she added whereas crying and this bought most of her fellow inmates to additionally shed some tears.
The Deputy Director of Prisons and the Officer-in-Charge of Nsawam Female Prison, Mrs. Victoria Adzewodah counseled the contributors for his or her enthusiasm, perseverance, and dedication all through the course.
“Let this experience be a stepping-stone toward new opportunities and a reminder that transformation is within your reach”, she intimated.
The Technical Director of the GFA, Prof. Joseph Mintah admonished the inmates to place what they’ve learnt into observe and on behalf of CAF thanked the jail facility for accepting roll out this system.
Bringing this system to an in depth, the General Secretary of the GFA, Mr. Prosper Harrison-Addo quoted Mahatma Ghandi’s common saying that “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” to reemphasize the humanitarian gesture of CAF and the GFA Foundation. He assured them that the GFA Foundation will donate some soccer objects and logistics to allow them to observe what they’ve learnt throughout this Licence D Coaching program. “We will facilitate the attachment of the participants (inmates) to football teams and also liaise with our sister football federations do the same when they are discharged from prison”, he indicated.
About half of the inmates have been nationals from different international locations resembling Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. The GFA and Ghana is the second Football Association and nation to host this landmark reformation program after the primary one was held within the Women’s Correctional Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
CAF Women Football by means of this program seeks to empower feminine inmates by means of soccer teaching schooling, offering them with priceless abilities for future employment and supply social rehabilitation alternatives by means of sport, aiding reintegration into society. Promote gender equality by rising the illustration of ladies in soccer resembling coaches, golf equipment officers and leaders and at last broaden CAF’s group engagement initiatives.
The GFA, with the assist of its beverage companion, Multi-Pac Company Ltd donated 20 packs of bottled water and 5 Star Energy drink to refresh the course contributors.
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