CHEZA Hubs | WEZA - Women Empowerment Zanzibar

The CHEZA Hub Programme

WEZA's Primary Delivery Platform

CHEZA Hubs are WEZA's primary delivery platform: a growing network of empowering learning spaces hosted in schools, community centres, and sports clubs across Unguja and Pemba.

The CHEZA Hub Programme creates safe, inclusive learning spaces where football and Purposeful Play come together to nurture girls' life skills, health, and long-term development.

In Zanzibar, many girls have limited access to organised sport, health education, and extracurricular learning opportunities. CHEZA Hubs respond to this gap by providing consistent, safeguarding-led programmes rooted in schools and communities.

Our Network

Types of CHEZA Hubs

CHEZA Hub Headquarters (HQ)

The heart of training, coordination, and safeguarding

Our purpose-built headquarters in Dunga Kiembeni is the heart of WEZA's work, serving as a space for training and mentoring coaches and teachers, curriculum and methodology development, and programme coordination with strong safeguarding oversight.

The hub is also home to the CHEZA Social Impact Girls' Football Academy, supporting up to 100 talented girls each year through ethical, safeguarding-led development pathways.

Now Open

CHEZA School & Community Hubs

Where weekly learning and play come together

In partnership with schools, communities, and sports clubs, WEZA will deliver inclusive weekly programmes through CHEZA School & Community Hubs across Zanzibar.

Each hub integrates football, Purposeful Play, health education, and leadership development — supporting school engagement and helping reduce the risk of dropout.

10 Hubs Coming 2027

Programme Activities

What Happens at a CHEZA Hub?

Purposeful Play

Learning through games, movement, and reflection to build life skills, confidence, voice, and awareness of health, rights, and environmental responsibility.

Football Development

Regular, inclusive football training that builds physical skills, teamwork, discipline, confidence, and a strong sense of belonging.

Health & Rights Education

Menstrual health, nutrition, mental wellbeing, reproductive health, and protection from gender-based violence taught through play and open discussion.

Safe & Inclusive Spaces

Safeguarding-led environments where girls of all abilities feel safe to participate, express themselves, and grow confidence and resilience.

Leadership & Life Skills

Teamwork, leadership, and decision-making built through football and Purposeful Play.

Capacity Building & Mentorship

Training and long-term support for teachers, community health workers, and coaches to deliver high-quality programmes.

Why Purposeful Play?

Turns play into guided learning experiences through reflection and dialogue
Builds life skills such as teamwork, communication, and leadership
Strengthens emotional wellbeing and girls' voices
Integrates health education, gender equality, and children's rights into everyday practice

Why Football?

An accessible team sport that brings girls of all abilities together
Fosters belonging and sisterhood
Makes girls' participation visible and accepted — on and off the pitch
Helps shift gender norms and attitudes within families, schools, and communities