Football For Reform: CAF officials jet in for the first ever coaching course for female inmates in Sierra Leone

Freetown | 22nd November 2023 | Vertex Media

Fifa Council Member and founder of Football For Reform, Madam Isha Johansen, has received a CAF delegation for the first ever Coaching Course for female inmates at the Correctional Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The delegation is made up of CAF Elite Women Instructor Mrs. Majida Nantanda from Uganda, and CAF Head of Women’s Football Ms Meskerem Tadesse Goshime from Ethiopia.

The CAF D License Coaching Course is a request from Madam Johansen in her drive for women’s empowerment by using football for positive change under the Football For Reform initiative.

A few months ago, CAF commissioned a training workshop for female inmates at the Correctional Centre in Freetown, a centre constructed with funds from p and FIFA Secretary General Madam Fatma Samoura for skills training and rehabilitation.

This centre will now host the first ever coaching course for inmates in prison in the world. An initiative, Madam Johansen, FIFA and CAF intend to replicate across the world.

The opening ceremony for the CAF D License Coaching Course will be held tomorrow at the Freetown Correctional Centre, Special Court Building. The course seek to benefit more than 25 inmates in a 5 to 7 days theoretical and practical training.

By Ibrahim Sorious Samura