WE United has been featured in The Kathmandu Post, one of the most popular national daily newspapers in Nepal!
For a grassroots organization dedicated to empowering girls and women through football, this kind of national recognition is a game-changer. It shines a spotlight on the power of sport to build confidence, leadership, and opportunity where it’s needed most.
Being featured on Nepal’s biggest national news platform means our stories and the voices of the girls and women we support are reaching a wider audience. It helps us gain more support, break down barriers, and inspire even more change across Nepal.
We’d love for you to read the article and celebrate this milestone with us!
Excerpt from The Kathmandu Post- Ellie Davis
“In a society where stigma and limited opportunities hold many back, the grassroots group WE United is rewriting the rules for female athletes.”
Back in 2014, a group of women in Nepal who played futsal together organised an all-women’s tournament, roping in friends to serve as referees and extra players. It was a humble effort made by a bunch of women who loved playing football and also realised how sport had a deep impact on their lives, says Arpana Pradhan, a member of the organising team. “We wanted this impact to reach other girls and women,” Arpana told the Post recently.
But when national football team players unexpectedly turned up to compete, the organisers realised that women in Nepal, be it elite athletes or newbies, needed more opportunities to participate in sports.
That realisation led to the founding of the WE United Project, which aimed to create space for women to play, connect, and grow through sport. Today, the project works to create opportunities for girls and women in Nepal to participate in sports, not only as players but also as coaches. Since 2018, its coaching programme has trained 38 young women from five districts in Nepal. Four coaches currently work out of Kathmandu, running the project’s weekly all-girls football academy. The project is also supporting two coaches in Salyan, in west Nepal, and Udayapur in the east.
What began as a few women kicking a ball around on Saturdays has now grown into a grassroots movement that inculcates in girls valuable life lessons and confidence through athletics.
