Yuwa-India
Yuwa-India
Football program for girls in rural India
Yuwa is a girl's football program in India. It uses girls' team sports as a platform for social development in rural India.[1] It is one of the largest programs, with 250 players, 150 of whom practice daily.[2] In 2009, Franz Gastler founded Yuwa with the financial help of his high school friends, Greg Deming, Stephen Peterson, and Erik Odland, to use football as a platform to combat child marriage, illiteracy and human trafficking among girls in rural India.[3][4]