Ari Amin organizes basketball sessions for young girls at Hammarkullehallen, where they train multiple times weekly. The initiative stems from a personal loss: his brother Alan was shot dead in 2017. After this event, Amin's work gained a clearer direction focused on providing girls with the same opportunities in sports as boys.
According to Ari Amin, there are still differences in the conditions girls and boys have in sports. The association actively works to create safe environments and recruit female leaders to support this mission. Many of the girls who started training at a young age later become coaches and leaders in the activity, fostering a cycle of empowerment.
They have the same drive, but not always the same opportunities.
According to SVT Väst, Ari Amin described this as an important part of the work, where girls recruit girls to take their place in the club and attract more participants. The exact number of young girls participating in the training sessions at Hammarkullehallen has not been disclosed, and specific measures taken to ensure safe environments remain unspecified. It is also unclear how many female leaders have been recruited or what roles they hold, and the impact of the program's clearer direction since 2017 on participation levels or opportunities provided has not been detailed.
Additionally, any partnerships or funding sources supporting the basketball activity for girls have not been confirmed.
Girls recruit girls. That is an important part of the work – that young girls take their place in their own club and attract more.