EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
Women Skate the World
THE NETHERLANDS
"Women Skate the World works to inspire, empower and engage people through skateboarding. Find more info on www.womenskatetheworld.com
Les Dégommeuses
FRANCE
Les Dégommeuses is both a lesbian-led football team and an association that campaigns against discrimination in sport and through sport. They exist since 2012 and gather around 75 members. Their actions target sexism, homophobia and racism through an intersectional approach.
Les Dégommeuses
FRANCE
Bike Bridge
GERMANY
Bike Bridge is a non-governmental and voluntary-based community leisure organisation targeting primarily (newly arrived) female asylum-seekers and refugees. The main objectives of Bike Bridge are to combat social isolation of refugees and asylum-seeking women, foster their spatial and social mobility and enable community cohesion mainly through recreational biking in different cities in Germany.
Feminist Diving Collective
POLAND
The feminist diving collective Bojka is an initiative based on the principles of ecological political feminism. The group brings together girls with varying degrees of physical abilities. Their activities oscillate between counteracting discrimination (marginalisation of women), fighting for the aquatic environment (with particular emphasis on the coral reef), and using diving as a tool for self-empowerment, emancipation, and crushing patriarchy. Girls describe themselves as mermaids.
Feminist Diving Collective
POLAND
Les Hijabeuses-Alliance Citoyenne
FRANCE
Les Hijabeuses-Alliance Citoyenne is an organization launched in January 2020 within the Muslim Women's Union. It was built to redress an injustice and allow all young women to play soccer without being excluded because of their religion. It is part of a larger group leading a national campaign for Muslim women's civil rights for access to sport in France.
Les Hijabeuses-Alliance Citoyenne
FRANCE
Ekvilibrijum
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Ekvilibrijum is a a young, female led organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina that provides access to various sports activities (like skiing, volleyball, football, basketball, gymnastics, snowboarding, among others) to marginalized and vulnerable social groups, especially women, LGBTI people, Roma people, persons with disabilities and immigrants.
Femme Fight Camps
GERMANY
Femme Fight Camps is an initiative that uses martial arts and fitness events to encourage girls and women to be the most badass versions of themselves, amplify their voices, and share their strength with other females under the banner of sisterhood. They target females of all ages, body types, orientations, and backgrounds. FFC events range from bootcamps and workshops to free community meetups & trainings at women’s shelters, local schools, and refugee camps in Germany & Europe.
Femme Fight Camps
GERMANY
Rebus Albania
Albania
REBUS Albania works to improve the social, environmental, and economic indicators of development. Among their activities, they offer programs to improve women’s health through sport, which increases self-esteem and the competitive spirit of girls who have faced violence. They work towards eliminating gender discrimination in the local practice of calisthenics.
Camden & Islington United Women's Team
UNITED KINGDOM
Camden & Islington United (CANDI) Women's Team is based in the UK and formed by a diverse group of girls and women playing, coaching and working towards creating a women's football programme where players of all ages and abilities can thrive. Through football, their programme aims to tackle the internalisation of gender binary expectations, that often coexist with other systemic prejudices, giving all women in all their diversity an opportunity to build confidence and to develop and acquire leadership skills which they can later reference in interviews and applications, and more broadly take with them in life.
Emakumea* Surflari
SPAIN
The Association in favor of the integral corporal Empowerment of Women * "Emakumea * Surflari", collaborates in the transformation towards a more egalitarian society for women that are cis, trans, intersex, lesbian, racialized, of diverse capacities, old, young, crazy... Through the promotion of access and participation in the practice of surfing through a diversity of roles: surfers, monitors, judges, coaches, organizers: a network of women* referents and feminists linked to the fight for equality.
Emakumea* Surflari
SPAIN
Kabubu
FRANCE
Kabubu, which means “Friendship through sport” in Swahili, brings together exiled and Parisian people around sport, with the purpose of being included and protected, a chance to heal, develop and grow. They organize free sport sessions, propose skills development programs, and offer professional training in sports coaching for refugees. Among their services, they give women-only yoga classes and offer discovering activities, to create safe spaces for women who wouldn’t dare to go to sport sessions.
Muamma Football Team
TURKEY
Muamma football is a well-known LGBTIQ+ Football team in Mersin, Turkey founded 7 years ago by queers & feminists to increase the visibility of women & LGBTIQ+ in sports, mainly football. As the pitches are one of the main areas where sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia are being constantly reproduced, Muamma believes that it is a key area that needs to be transformed. And they also showcase the joy that can come from it if we look out for each other and not only focus on winning. Focusing on various marginalized communities such as the unemployed, Kurds, migrants, Alevites, people with disabilities etc, Muamma tries to make football and pitches accessible & enjoyable for everyone who has been excluded from them!
Muamma Football Team
TURKEY
*When the ONSIDE Fund refers to girls and women, we include; all self-identified women, and non-binary individuals from underrepresented groups and communities such as black, indigenous, mestizas, people of colour, LGBTQIA+, refugees, and migrant girls and women with or without disabilities.
