{"id":17958,"date":"2020-11-21T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=17958"},"modified":"2020-11-21T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:09:15","slug":"kilifis-mtg-win-sports-award-for-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kilifis-mtg-win-sports-award-for-gender-equality","title":{"rendered":"Kilifi\u2019s MTG win sports award for gender equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Ernest Ndunda<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Kenya\u2019s Moving The Goalposts (MTG) women team has won the prestigious UN 2020 Sports for Gender Equality Collective Impact Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Kilifi-based women football team won the award for using football to achieve gender equality and empower disadvantaged girls and young women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that Moving The Goalposts (MTG) has been named as the winners for the 2020 Sport for Gender Equality Collective Impact Award Backed by\u00a0Comic Relief\u00a0&#8211; a Beyond Sport Foundation partner since 2014,\u201d said MTG Executive Director Dorcas Amakobe<\/p>\n<p>Amakobe said the award was in recognition of their efforts to promote gender equality and will enable the teamwork jointly to strengthen the impact and promote joint learning.<\/p>\n<p>MTG was awarded the award together with Kenya\u2019s Pamoja Initiative, Uganda\u2019s Soccer Without Borders and Sport-Aid Development Trust of Zambia for their efforts in using sports to progress the UN Development Goal 5.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, MTG won the Global Goals World Cup in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Ernest Ndunda AfricaPress-Kenya: Kenya\u2019s Moving The Goalposts (MTG) women team has won the prestigious UN 2020 Sports for Gender Equality Collective Impact Award. 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