US EditionIn Dakar fishing village, surfing entices girls back to school
The four-month Surf Academy enrolled 23 girls, including 17 out-of-school youths, combining surfing lessons with education to boost school attendance, organizers said.
- Black Girls Surf's Dakar chapter ran a four-month Surf Academy in Dakar requiring girls aged seven to 17 to enrol in school, drawing 23 participants, 17 of whom had never attended or left school, finishing in January with schooling continuing through July.
- Amid declining fish stocks and economic hardship, Senegal's low primary completion rates for girls and traditional gender norms hinder re-enrollment, Sambe said, `In the beginning, it was difficult because we are girls and we didn't see other girls who surfed`.
- Providing equipment, the programme gave participants surfboards and wetsuits, ran daytime surfing, fitness, meditation sessions and night-school literacy classes; `I had never surfed before this program`, Seynabou Tall said.
- Six participants already enrolled in school used the academy as an after-school activity, and Soukeye Ndoye, 16, coach, said she is delighted to "hold an important position" signalling new coaching pathways.
- Despite Dakar's world-class, year-round waves, Khadjou Sambe, Senegal's first female professional surfer and vice president of Black Girls Surf, Dakar chapter, aims for the 2028 Los Angeles Games and highlights local Olympic ambitions.
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A surf academy is enticing Senegalese girls back to school
For generations, Seynabou Tall's ancestors have fished, dived and rowed off the coast of Dakar. It's the same place where the 14-year-old, who quit school nearly four years ago, is now learning to surf.
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In Dakar fishing village, surfing entices girls back to school
For generations, Seynabou Tall's ancestors have fished, dived and rowed off the coast of Dakar, where the 14-year-old, who quit school nearly four years ago, is now learning to surf.
Video. Senegal surf school in Dakar brings girls back to class
Senegal is seeing a small but hopeful change on the coast of Dakar, where about 20 girls from the fishing village of Xataxely have joined a new Surf Academy. The rule is simple: if they want to surf, they must also go to school. Run by the US group Black Girls Surf, the four-month programme mixes lessons in the water with evening classes for girls who dropped out or never enrolled. The girls largely come from Lebou households, traditional Wolof …
In the fishermen's village of Ngor in Dakar, a programme combining surfing and school support allows young girls who are out of school to return to school. An initiative led by an American NGO and Senegalese surfers, which relies on self-esteem to combat school drop-out.
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