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Podcast: Removing the barriers to sport for Muslim girls

Podcast: Removing the barriers to sport for Muslim girls

December 2019

We chat to Amna Akhtar co-founder of Girl Dreamer, the empowerment platform for women of colour, and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan from Maslaha, creators of the Muslim Girls Fence project with British Fencing, about the barriers that Muslim girls face, how the sports sector can change and support them to get active.

Follow their work:
www.girldreamer.co.uk maslaha.org

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