{"id":9794,"date":"2009-11-09T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/project-aims-to-get-muslim-women-into-sport\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T13:48:22","slug":"project-aims-to-get-muslim-women-into-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/project-aims-to-get-muslim-women-into-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Project aims to get Muslim women into sport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three-year initiative launched by Muslim Women\u2019s Sport Foundation<\/h3>\n
A NEW project had been launched to get Muslim women into sport.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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The Born To Succeed (BTS) initiative was launched by London-based Muslim Women’s Sport Foundation’s earlier this month. <\/div>\n

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The three-year project, which is being funded by the Football Foundation, held a special launch event attended by England women\u2019s football star Alex Scott.<\/div>\n

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Rimla Akhtar, MWSF Chairperson, said it was important to offer projects which encouraged Muslim women to take part in sports. <\/div>\n

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\u201cA number of organisations often talk about supporting women from this community however action was never taken to prove their words,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n

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\u201cAs an organisation, the MWSF has proven what can be achieved.\u00a0The fact is that there are many Muslim women in this country who love to play sport and compete \u2013 this enthusiasm has been made clear in the work we have carried out so far.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The BTS project, based in Acton, will offer training sessions in futsal and basketball as well as offering support to those interested in becoming qualified coaches and referees. <\/div>\n

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Alex Scott, England Women\u2019s International said she was impressed with the groups work.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe MWSF sessions are a great achievement, their attendance every week shows that there needs to be more thing like this including female only sessions.\u00a0The whole organisation is a great success,\u201d she said. <\/div>\n

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The Muslim Women’s Sport Foundation was set up in 2001 and provides an all female environment in which Muslim women can participate in sport.<\/div>\n

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The group is the official UK body to the International Women’s Islamic Games and gives players the opportunity to represent Great Britain in their chosen sport.<\/div>\n

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Three-year initiative launched by Muslim Women\u2019s Sport Foundation A NEW project had been launched to get Muslim women into sport. The Born To Succeed (BTS) initiative was launched by London-based Muslim Women’s Sport Foundation’s earlier this month. The three-year project, which is being funded by the Football Foundation, held a special launch event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}