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Health Trust, Fatima has used sport as a vehicle to define her as a person and use the skills she has learnt to support more young Muslim girls to get active in the community.
Fatima studied Sport at Capital City Academy’s sixth form in Brent and is now preparing to go to university. Fatima was this year awarded the Beckwith CARE Award at the Youth Sport Trust Conference for her leadership skills.
Initially supporting sporting delivery in school, Fatima began to promote activity sessions when meeting with other girls outside of school, encouraging them to attend and pointing out the benefits of activity – no matter their ability. She now regularly leads football sessions in the community and is a key voice on her local steering group.
Fatima’s status, and the trust placed in her by parents, has enabled her to encourage children to play in a park adjacent to her neighbourhood.
Fatima said: “Sport has allowed me to demonstrate, that the power of sport comes from a person’s soul regardless of their gender, ethnicity or religion. It is inclusive for all. The fact that I am a young Muslim female in a Somali community with a passion for participating in sport, volunteering and coaching in sport has put me in a very privileged position to not only prove that point, but also inspire and motivate others to get involved.
“In my community, many young people are not encouraged to go out as the local playing areas are seen as dangerous,
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especially for young girls. Through my involvement in the Local People Project, it has helped me to develop skills to support more young Muslim girls to get active in the community. Initially, I was supporting sporting delivery in school with guidance from the Youth Sport Trust, but then slowly I began to promote activity sessions when meeting with other girls outside of school, encouraging them to attend and pointing out the benefits of activity. I now regularly lead football sessions in the community and give a voice to girls in my community on my local steering group.”
The Youth Sport Trust is supporting a minimum of 250 people across the neighbourhoods over the next few years and will create a minimum of 50 young leaders through the programme. Once trained, the young leaders will contribute to the content and delivery of the interventions as well as setting up community steering groups that will enable young people to act as influential representatives in their community.
Local People is a project that is fundamentally about growing social connectedness. It engages and empowers neighbourhoods to genuinely design and lead physical activity-based interventions that make their area better places to grow, live and work.
www.youthsporttrust.org/localpeople www.youthsporttrust.org/play-unified
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