Sports

The Foundation supports sports as a means of promoting cohesion amongst groups and communities, supporting a healthy population, providing alternative opportunities for young people, and the integration of education and life skills into sport as well as building Kenya’s national pride.

Sports Partners

The Foundation has extended its support in a number of ways from rehabilitating sports groups to supporting sporting initiatives that bring education, life skills and income generating opportunities to communities.

In Kilifi the Foundation supported the “Moving The Goalposts” project where teenage girls have formed an active football league as well as trained a team of peer educators to provide life skills and health information after their training sessions and matches.

The “Alive and Kicking” project makes footballs and netballs bearing awareness messages and has also conducted a series of road shows providing educative messages targeting the youth. The Mathare Youth Soccer Association (MYSA), an organisation that uses sports to rehabilitate and empower youth from the Mathare slum in Nairobi and whose football team has won the premier league, has also benefitted from the Foundation's support.