Yuwa-India

Hutup Yuwa School

Yuwa-India is an organization based in Jharkhand, India that consists of a girls' football club and school. It uses girls' team sports and schooling opportunities as a platform for social development in rural India. The football club part of Yuwa is the first club specifically designed for female players (catered to girls 6-18 years of age), and has 250 players, 150 of whom practice daily. In 2009, Franz Gastler founded Yuwa with the financial help of his high school friends, Greg Deming, Stephen Peterson, and Erik Odland, to use football as a platform to combat child marriage, illiteracy and human trafficking among girls in rural India.

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History

Franz Gastler has given TEDx talks on "Sports to promote confidence in women" (2012), "The Girl Effect" (2013) and with Rinky Kumari "Yuwa - How football can change lives" (2015).

The program was featured as a Microsoft Edge Partner, November 16, 2017, highlighting the new Yuwa web page. The News & Media page has a list of media articles describing Yuwa.

Donosti Cup football tournament

Participation in the 2013 tournament helped Yuwa achieve recognition in India. Their participation in the 2016 tournament in Spain was featured in a short series of four videos by the Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor. They were the second team invited to the 2018 25th Anniversary tournament.

Awards

References

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  2. ↑ "About Yuwa". Yuwa-India. Yuwa India. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Sports to promote confidence in women". YouTube. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  4. 1 2 "The Girl Effect". YouTube. 24 March 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Yuwa - How football can change lives". YouTube. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "Yuwa partners with Microsoft Edge to showcase the powerful life journey of girls in Jharkhand". Windows Blogs. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "News & Media". Yuwa. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY FOR YUWA AND DONOSTI CUP". Donosti Cup. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Winning Through Failure!". YouTube. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "THE INDIAN YUWA TEAM WILL BE THE SECOND TEAM INVITED BY DONOSTI CUP IN ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY". Donosti Cup. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  11. ↑ "And the Laureus World Sports Awards 2019 Winners are..." Laureus. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  12. ↑ "Yuwa". Laureus. Retrieved 25 September 2020.