Bridget Magasu is the first to arrive for the training session, clutching a rugby ball while she waits for other members of her all-female rugby team to arrive.
Usually a sport reserved for the affluent suburbs of Zimbabwe's major cities, rugby is making inroads in the countryside, where it offers a release from the woes of poverty, early marriage and unemployment which have blighted the southern Africa country for decades.
"Rugby has changed my life because I spend most of my time at the ground," Magasu, 20, told Reuters at the practice session at Zimbiru Primary School in Domboshava, a poor rural neighbourhood 40 km north of Harare.Domboshava, a hub for transporting farm produce, has become a hotspot for sex work. Zimbabwe's economy is weak, the currency is in free-fall and a 100 Zimbabwe dollar note is no longer enough to buy an egg."If are training four days a week and they have a game on Saturday, it gives them very little time to think about anything else," team manager Caroline Makari, 46, said.
Four of their players have been drafted into Zimbabwe's Under-20 women's side and a few have made the Under-18 squad.
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