About Us
For The Youth
Feminist Movement for Women in Art and Sports (FMWAS)
Youth for Change Network (YCN) is a youth-led feminist organization that advances social justice, gender equality, and inclusive development, with sports as our primary pillar and entry point for change.
We leverage sport as a powerful tool for leadership development, safe participation, community organizing, and social inclusion, particularly for young women/womxn, LBQIGNC individuals, and other marginalized youth who are often excluded from public and civic spaces.
Through structured sports programming, we build confidence, collective power, and pathways for participation while addressing safety, visibility, and wellbeing.
Anchored in sport, our work integrates Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) education and service linkage to promote bodily autonomy and informed decision-making; climate justice initiatives that connect youth-led environmental action, climate resilience, and equitable adaptation for vulnerable communities; and capacity strengthening for grassroots groups, institutions, and duty bearers to deliver inclusive, rights-based services.
We embed monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) across all programs to generate evidence, strengthen accountability, and continuously improve impact. Through strategic partnerships with communities, media, civil society, and public institutions, YCN amplifies lived experiences, challenges stigma and discrimination, and advances sustainable, locally led solutions that foster dignity, safety, and equitable opportunities for all.
Some Cool Facts
Numbers Speak For Themselves
1000+
Active members and athletes
4
Years of cumulative movement experience and organizing
25+
Community-led projects implemented
These figures represent more than scale, they reflect spaces reclaimed, confidence rebuilt, and communities strengthened.
Why We Exist
For many young women and LBQIGNC people, sports fields, creative platforms, and public spaces are sites of surveillance and harm rather than freedom. YCN exists to transform these spaces into sites of dignity, joy, and rights-claiming.
Why Sports
By centering sport as a feminist practice, YCN demonstrates that when marginalized bodies are affirmed rather than controlled, participation becomes power and community becomes the outcome.