CAF Women Football in partnership with GFA Foundation will organize a Licence D Coaching course for female inmates at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. This will be the first time an international football Coaching training program will be taking place in a prison facility in Ghana.
The CAF Football for Reform program aims to provide female inmates with CAF-accredited coaching qualifications, improving their job prospects and supporting their reintegration into society after their release from Prison. This initiative highlights the transformative potential of football as a tool for rehabilitation and positive change.
The GFA Foundation is coordinating the training program with supervision from the GFA Technical Department and technical support from CAF.
The 30 participants include 25 inmates and 5 prison officers. As part of the requirement for the training program, the Ghana Prison Service has assured CAF through the GFA on the readiness and safe environment that the Coaching course will be conducted.
The Head of CAF Women's Football Meskerem Goshime indicated the goal of the program is to empower women through football coaching education, giving them valuable skills for their future while contributing to gender equality and social rehabilitation. “We are excited to extend an opportunity to the Ghana Football Association to host the CAF Football for Reform Program”, Goshime said.
It will be recalled that in 2024, the GFA Foundation launched the GFA Foundation-Ghana Prison Project which is a football for development initiative seeks to use the power of football to promote the wellbeing, welfare, reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates of Ghana’s Prisons into society.
The 3 pillars of the project include the donation of football items and logistics, coaching, refereeing training for inmates and officers and finally advocacy workshops to sensitize the public and the citizenry on the negative impact of discrimination and stigmatization of prisons and prisoners.