Entertain for Health Project (EHP)
The EHP project will engage youth aged 10–24 in Bo District, Southern Sierra Leone, through sports and entertainment competitions to reduce harmful substance use. Organized by the Women Health Initiative,...View
Let’s play for Baranoa
Let’s Play for Baranoa is a curriculum-based project that uses football as a transformative tool to build critical socio-emotional skills in children and youth aged 10–18. Weekly football sessions in...View
Match Fit – using football to promote mental health and wellbeing
‘Match Fit’, in partnership with the Association of Working Children and Youth, is testing the effectiveness of experiential football sessions to improve young people’s mental health knowledge, dispel harmful cultural...View
It takes a village: empowering Freetown slum communities to prevent Kush use and promote wellbeing among addicted youth
Led by Global Youth Network in partnership with YAMA and ARMeD Victims SL, this initiative aims to address widespread Kush use in four slum communities of Freetown, Sierra Leone, through...View
Leveraging Football Coaching for Mental Health Education
Power Plus Foundation’s sports-based innovation integrates mental health education into football coaching sessions, using the popularity of football to engage youth in discussions about mental well-being. Trained youth facilitators will...View
