Empowering Women through Sports | The Tomato Timer #037

opportunity to represent my country at the International Olympic Academy for the event “58th International Session for Young Participants” which held in Greece. Also, the last year 2019, I got the opportunity to represent my organization at the One Young World International Summit held in London, UK. I was a recipient of The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust and I was also fortunate to meet The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. <br> In 2018, I co-founded Deshi Ballers along with a friend of mine. This is a female-led voluntary organization that aims to empower women of all ages through sports. Our mission statement stands -- “To teach, develop, organize, manage and offer female youth players in Bangladesh opportunities to learn and play basketball while instilling life-lessons and values such as character, teamwork, discipline, respect, and sportsmanship.” <br> Through our venture, we are trying to provide opportunities to the girls who want to pursue sports as their career and mainly trying to reduce the discrimination which a woman had to face in sports. As a female athlete myself, I know how hard it is for women to hold on to any sport in my country.<br> Connect with Gulnahar on  <a href = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulnahar-mahbub-monika-2bbba965/">LinkedIn</a> <br> <a href = "https://www.instagram.com/gulnahar_mahbub_monika/"> Instagram </a> <br> <a href = "https://twitter.com/gulnaharmahbub"> Twitter </a> <br> <a href = "https://www.facebook.com/gulnaharmahbub.monika">Facebook</a> <br> <a href = "https://www.youtube.com/GulnaharMahbubMonika">YouTube</a> <br><br> Deshi Ballers: <a href = "https://www.facebook.com/deshiballers/">Facebook</a> <br> <a href = "https://www.instagram.com/deshiballers/"> Instagram </a> <br> <a href = "https://twitter.com/deshiballers"> Twitter </a> <br> <a href = "https://bd.linkedin.com/company/deshiballers"> LinkedIn </a> <br> The One Young World Logo is reproduced with permission of One Young World Limited.  <br><br> Join our next live session by becoming part of the <a href = "https://discord.gg/pntDdE5" > ZNotes Discord Community </a>.  <br> Connect with ZNotes on <br> <a href = "https://www.instagram.com/znotesrevision/"> Instagram </a> <br> <a href =  "https://twitter.com/znotesrevision">Twitter </a><br> Connect with Zubair Junjunia on <br> <a href = "https://www.instagram.com/zjunjunia/">Instagram </a> <br> <a href = "https://twitter.com/zjunjunia" >Twitter </a> <br>