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Women sport
MHS also takes women’s participation in sport, promoting and empowering girls and women in sport as a challenge. Gender equality in society is needed. The aim is the organisation and set-up of sport activities for women in the community, such as sport festivals and aerobics. MHS aims to increase female’s capacity for leadership in organisations.
Women in Sport festival
The Women in Sport festival is an annual event organized by Sport leaders of the Mutare -Haarlem Sport leaders project, under the aegis of the city of Mutare through the city link charter and with the technical support of the MHS stakeholders, who are the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture, Sport and Recreation Commission, Dutch Volunteers and Sport Development Advisor and different sport associations.
The Women in sport festival is one of the biggest sporting events in Mutare and is in its 4th year running, it is organized solely for women to bring together female clubs and individuals from all over Zimbabwe to compete in seven sports.
This year we to organize a platform for women to discuss and share the problem they face in a society that is dominated by males. We also hope that this will provide women with a chance to come up with solutions to the problems they face especially in view of the HIV/Aids pandemic. We seek to achieve women empowerment. This is one of the MHS goals of the recently launched campaign with the theme “Women Empowerment through Sport”.
This event is already recognized at national level whereby most of the teams and clubs from all corners of Zimbabwe will be always expecting to take place every year. We (Sportleaders) feel proud to put our project on the map of the country through this event. We also strive to add more recipes on how events are managed in more professional manner, as well as to portray an idea that young sport manager are capable of managing big sport events.
We also wish if one team from Haarlem will come and participate in any one of the seven sport disciplines of this magnitude and it will be a marketable event right through Zimbabwe and internationally. The Women in Sport Festival also improves our networks and partnership with different sport boards such as sport association and social development organizations, NGOs and Ministry of Education, sport and culture. Not forgetting our motherboard the City of Mutare.