Yuwa uses girls’ team sports as a platform for social development in rural India. Yuwa is one of the largest girls’ football programs in India, with 250 players, 150 of whom practice daily. In 2009 Franz Gastler founded Yuwa with the financial help of his high school friends, Greg Deming, Sephen Peterson, and Erik Odland, to use football as a platform to combat child marriage, illiteracy and human trafficking among girls in rural India.
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