Nasvick Initiative

The Initiative was formed after the founder's retirement from playing soccer who decided to create this as a platform to empower fellow disadvantaged women and girls through sports and Business Entrepreneurship having experienced hardships during her time playing sports in South Sudan. Nasvick Initiative currently collaborates with relevant government departments, such as the SSFA, local teams, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the State Ministry of Trade and Commerce for the support of girls and women in South Sudan. The objectives for the establishment of the NASVICK INITIATIVE (NI) are 1: a) To develop, support, encourage and elevate women’s soccer and other sporting activities in South Sudan and beyond. b) To recruit, train, encourage, and support women team coaches and equip them with necessary coaching skills and management. c) To encourage school girls' dropouts to participate in sports in order to discourage redundancy and idleness and to promote and encourage sports and physical education among girls d) To break cultural norms and practices that discourage girls from participating in soccer and other sporting activities. g) To promote peace and peaceful co-existence through women's soccer and other games. h) To organize inter-communal meetings focusing on girls' and women's empowerment in the communities. i) To provide the necessary support to women's soccer teams and other games in IDPs, POCS, and refugee camps. j) To provide entrepreneurial training and support to retired women footballers as economic empowerment for a decent living.