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Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, his mother, and his grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt that he needed to make a difference. In 2002, Abdul started a soccer team for girls called Girls Soccer in Kibera (GSK), with the hope of fostering a supportive community and providing emotional and mental support for the young women in the town. The soccer program was a success, but the looming dangers of slum life persisted, and the young women continued to fall victim to the worst kinds of human atrocities. Indeed, it was the unyielding injustice of these conditions that led Abdul to the conclusion that soccer alone was not enough to create the systemic changes needed. In 2006, the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) was established to begin to help create those changes, and it continues its work today.

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Ellie Roscher is the author of Play Like a Girl and How Coffee Saved My Life. Her work can also be found in several compilation books and magazines. An editor, blogger, youth worker, and creative writing teacher, she currently resides in Minneapolis with her spouse and two sons. To find out more, visit her at ellieroscher.com. Katherine Fenton has worked on television and radio commercials, voiced the children's cartoons Four Eyes and Knights of the Zodiac, and done podcasts for The Economist, New Scientist, and the science-fiction/fantasy series Transcendent Tales. She has also narrated over eighty audiobook titles in a variety of genres, including titles such as the Morganville Vampire Series, TC Boyles's Sam Miguel, and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby.

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