Go Sisters - using sport to promote gender equality in Zambia

Katie Lewis

11 March 2018

United Purpose is supporting a local partner organisation, EduSport, to deliver the exciting ‘Go Sisters!’ project, which works across five provinces in Zambia. It uses community-based netball and football leagues to run leadership development opportunities for marginalised girls, helping them to grow in confidence, develop life skills, improve their literacy and access vocational and entrepreneurial training.

Katie Lewis

8 March 2018

Celebrating International Women's Day in Zambia - with netball

Katie Lewis

8 March 2018

Steve Harknett, UP's Global Advisor in Sport for Development and Peace, shares a lively account of a netball tournament in Zambia – and explains how the sport is being used to promote women's rights.

Katie Lewis

7 March 2018

Q&A: Celebrating International Women's Day in Ghana

Katie Lewis

7 March 2018

As part of our International Women's Day series, we chat with Juliette Lampoh, Country Director of UP Ghana, about her career, her passions and being a role model for other women.

Katie Lewis

4 March 2018

Progress and prosperity in Bangladesh: Rita's story

Katie Lewis

4 March 2018

Meet Rita Begum, a small-scale poultry farmer from Rupsha Upazila in Khulna District, southwestern Bangladesh.

Katie Lewis

18 February 2018

A photographer's take: in conversation with a humanitarian storyteller

Katie Lewis

18 February 2018

Jason Florio is a humanitarian photographer and storyteller. His work focuses on under-reported stories about people living on the margins of society and in places of conflict – and he has done several photography projects for United Purpose. Here, he talks to us about his inspiring career journey to date.