Scheduling
Girls, especially those living in poverty, are often responsible for assisting with domestic responsibilities, including looking after children, doing chores, cooking, and cleaning.
In addition, many adolescent girls fill the rest with their day in school or working paid jobs. Participation in a sport programme might not fit easily into a girl’s already full schedule. Girls are often afforded only a little, if any, leisure time after their daily chores and caretaking responsibilities are over.
Our recommendations
In the infographic below you can see some recommendations for dealing with this barrier. You can adopt these to suit your context. You can also download the infographic to use offline.
Case Study
You can see a case study of how other organisations have addressed this barrier by clicking the accordion menu below.
Moving The Goalposts (Kenya) visits caregivers and helps them to create daily schedules with their daughters so that the girls can both attend sport sessions and complete chores at home. Other organisations have taken steps to provide childcare at sport sessions so that girls can bring their young siblings with them.
