Play Like a Girl, Ellie Roscher
Play Like a Girl, Ellie Roscher
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Play Like a Girl
How a Soccer School in Kenya's Slums Started a Revolution

Author: Ellie Roscher

Narrator: Katherine Fenton

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/08/2017

Synopsis

Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, his mother, and his grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt that he needed to make a difference. In 2002, Abdul started a soccer team for girls called Girls Soccer in Kibera (GSK), with the hope of fostering a supportive community and providing emotional and mental support for the young women in the town. The soccer program was a success, but the looming dangers of slum life persisted, and the young women continued to fall victim to the worst kinds of human atrocities. Indeed, it was the unyielding injustice of these conditions that led Abdul to the conclusion that soccer alone was not enough to create the systemic changes needed. In 2006, the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) was established to begin to help create those changes, and it continues its work today.

About Ellie Roscher

Ellie Roscher is the author of Play Like a Girl and How Coffee Saved My Life. Her work can also be found in several compilation books and magazines. An editor, blogger, youth worker, and creative writing teacher, she currently resides in Minneapolis with her spouse and two sons. To find out more, visit her at ellieroscher.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eilonwy

Everyone who’s read my reviews for a few years knows I love me a good inspiring sports story. This book was not exactly what the title or cover seem to promise. I thought the focus was going to be on empowering girls through athletic training and accomplishment. Instead, soccer makes a sort-of frame......more

Goodreads review by Heidi

A must-read when it comes to educating girls - Roscher tells the story of KGSA with humility and grace, and you'll find yourself rooting for these girls more with the turn of every page.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

My favorite chapter in this book is entitled, “Thriving Girls Change the World.” There is a quote on the first page that summarized much of the book quite eloquently: “The conversations that took place at KGSA often centered on the importance of free education, of delaying pregnancy and early marria......more

Goodreads review by Halima

This is a story of hope to every youth in every slum in the world.It is a story about the hope the love the happiness that exist in slums despite all the hardships that we encounter in the slum.It's a story about trust that better days are coming, a story about pushing yourself to be better despite......more

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