Increasing forest cover through play in Nairobi

Happy New Year 2018, I hope you had a wonderful holiday.

It is yet another moment to inform you how we are doing since November 2017, indeed it was a great year through your support. We (Green-Kenya) participated in the black Friday and End-Year Campaign.

On behalf of Green-Kenya family, I would like to say a big THANK YOU.

Through your generous donations, we have been able to conduct Community Impact Program in two Community Schools with a total number of 200 participants both boys and girls from the age of 9 to 16 years, these schools were set up by the community to give basic education to Children who were coming from the slums and could not afford to go to public school and also because of the distance that public school are located.

We have also been able to conduct 8 Community Impact Program out of  school, these are sessions that take place when the schools are closed, that is April, August, November and December holidays, the ministry of Education directed all the schools to allow Children to have 8 weeks holidays without tuition in the month of November and December. Community Impact program out of school has reached 300 participants, majority of these participants have been boys since many girls are still not allowed to play football in other communities. In total, we have been able to reach 1655 participants in six different activities in Nairobi and Ukunda County where we have begun a new community impact program in kwilu village. The climax was towards the end of the year 2017. The total number of participants reached surprised us when we were doing our monitoring and evaluation as a team and these year we anticipate to do more.

As an organization, we have trained 80 Local coaches on sport for development, how to use sports to address the social issues that they are facing in their communities and come up with home grown solutions.

I met with a teenage boy in during the long holiday, whom I will call (John), this is not is real name, John was interested to join Green-Kenya as a young leader this year, John has just completed ordinary level of education which is known as form four in Kenya, John has no feet and palm in both hands and feet, he can barely wear shoes or hold a cup, He approached me and asked if he can join and learn how to teach his peers through sports after he is done with exams and it was so emotional to me. His words made me shiver from the inside, and I quote, “I am looking forward to come and join you after my final exams if you will give me the chance”.  Come February next month, we will incorporate him in the sessions, I hope he will be a source of inspiration to our participants too.. This year 2018, we are delight to add 50 more participants in both schools which will bring a total of 300 Participants.

All these have been made possible with your support; I am totally convinced that we are going to do even more this year with your generous donation. You are most welcome to come and participate physically and feel the experience hand on.

Happy New Year 2018!!!.