Saikul MLA kicks off FutGal Girls Football Tournament
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kangpokpi, February 10 2023:
MLA Saikul AC Kimneo Haokip Hangshing opened the 4th FutGal on Friday at Saikul Hill Town.
The FutGal is a girls' football tournament organised annually under the theme 'Empowering girls through football'' by InSIDE North East, a well acclaimed non-profit NGO actively engaged in various social services.
The 4th FutGal is organised by the InSIDE-North East in collaboration with Saikul Hill Town under the aegis of All Saikul Football Association (ASFA), supported by KFB-Austrain Catholic Women's Movement and National Foundation for India (NFI).
The inaugural ceremony was graced by the local MLA Kimneo Haokip Hangshing as chief guest while SDO Saikul Block, M Bhungba and ASFA president Mangcha Haokip attended as guest of honour and functional president respectively.
Speaking at the occasion, Kimneo Haokip Hangsh ing said that sky is the only limit as success is for those who dare and believe in themselves.
She exhorted all the girls participating in the tournament to take up football as a career not only as a hobby.
SDO Saikul M Bhungba while appreciating the organising team encouraged the girls to come up and tace the challenges squarely, adding that 'the world is fair for people who are strong and not for the weak, so we must act strong' .
Hejang Misao, director InSIDE-North East, said that as the result of FutGal, 15 girls have now took up football as a career and played in various clubs of Manipur.
He continued that there cannot be true development if the girls are not empowered, the main reason behind organising this tournament is to empower girls-play for freedom and for development.
Altogether 16 clubs across the district are competing for the trophy.