FAME Foundation, a non-profit social enterprise set up to empower, develop, galvanize and encourage a level playing field for women and girls will today organise a friendly football tournament in commemoration of International Women’s Day.
The Executive Director of FAME Foundation, Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello, in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja stated that this year’s event, themed “Count Her In: Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress,” is a call to address the economic disempowerment of women and promote women’s advancement.
She added that sports is what unites all Nigerians irrespective of their cultural, tribal, and religious affiliations.
“This year, FAME Foundation is organizing its annual international football tournament for women.
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“This is the fifth edition of the match and I can say it’s one of our biggest events of the year as it brings together different women from the highest sector of society, such as the Minister of Youth Affairs, Jamila Bio Ibrahim, who will be our guest of honor, to women from the diplomatic communities down to the market women.
“We all agree that sports has the power to inspire and unite people as it is also a social vehicle for development in a heterogeneous country like Nigeria,” she said. The event will feature a friendly football tournament involving 10 teams; Team USA, Team ANFS, Team EAC, Team BHC, Team AWITA, Team Bet9ja, Team FAME, Team FIDA, Team ASHWAN, Team Canada at the Area 3 Football Pitch, Garki, Abuja.
