For the females of the project team, we headed down south together with Haneen and Sarah, from sports (football) equality organisation Equal Playing Field to run a dual cricket and football session for 120 children in Ghor Al Safi near the Dead Sea. This session was a first on many levels; number 1 for running a part cricket part football session together on a CWB project coached by an all female team. Number two, we think it’s probably one of the lowest places on earth that cricket has been coached and number three it was a first time we had experience boys and girls playing together on the same team in Jordan.
The latter was the most significant. We were coaching in one of the most conservative parts of Jordan, very rural and quite isolated – and yet boys and girls were kicking footballs to each other, and throwing balls at the stumps in order to work together to achieve a team aim – and we had the support of the local school to do this.
The work of both CWB and Equal Playing field has similar aims in respect of female gender equality, to ensure that girls have the chance to play and the fact we could do this working the boys too, is just one of the many ways we can start building the actual equal playing field, in one of the more reserved communities.
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