Football for freedom: Girls from rural Rajasthan play ball to fight patriarchy
Girls—aged between 10 and 20—from villages including Chachiyawas, Hansiyawas, Kharekhadi, Tedvon Ki Dhani and Padampura around Ajmer, Rajasthan, are finding confidence and perseverance in playing football and scoring goals on the field and in life
By: Amit Verma
Teams from Chachiyawas and Tedvon Ki Dhani play a friendly match at the football ground of the government school of Bhawani Khera village. The ground that was allocated to the girls was full of stones and garbage. For close to a month, the girls spent an hour daily after school cleaning up, says Pancholi of MJAS.
