Girl Power - Closing Event

A joint Project of Goethe-Institut, Pakistan & Alliance Française de Karachi, funded by the French-German Cultural Fund.
Closing event on Saturday 10th December 2016 at Alliance Française de Karachi.
 

Girl Power in Karachi is aimed at youth and especially girls, to give them a space to express their aspirations, creativity and talents through movement and sports. The megacity of Karachi has a lack of locations and opportunities in sports and culture for the younger generation that is the majority of the population and through Girl Power project we created space and given the young girls an opportunity to express themselves through Urban Dance and Boxing. The project consisted in workshops boxing and dance (especially for girls), plus a DJ as a closing event.

French Boxers/Trainers: Marion, Sejda, Mariam, Emanuel, Emilie along with the German Dancers/Trainers: Yasmeen, Amilia and Ralf Christian been invited from France and Germany by Alliance française de Karachi and Goethe-Institut to share their passion for dance and boxing with the Karachi girls from the 1st until the 10th of December. During last 10 days, the workshops were organized in Lyari clubs and Raging Boxing Club for Boxing and at NAPA & Alliance Française for the Dance.

More than 150 girls for dance and 50 for boxing got the training through Girl Power Project.

These workshops have been intense, interactive and productive for the trainers as well as the participants and the exchange between the three countries (France, Germany and Pakistan) have been tremendous.

All participants were invited to the final event, Saturday 10 December at Alliance française de Karachi. They performed what they learnt from the workshops (dance and boxing) and enjoyed the music by DJ, Elisabeth Enke with the audience. In the final event, French CG - Francois Dall Orso and CG of Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Rainer Schmiedchen gave the trophies to the winners along with the Director of Goethe-Institut, Stefan Winkler and Director of Alliance française de Karachi Jean Francaois.