Increasing forest cover through play in Nairobi

It has been one of the exciting moment for the new participants who joined Community Impact Program this year 2018. The interaction between new and previous participants in both Jovial Ferrel Education Centre and Splash C.B.O School was phenomenal.

We had a question and answer session where the new participants were asking the community Coaches about the session and what to expect and surprisingly, some of the older participants were responding to some question like the importance of participants keeping time so that they can have more time to play.

We have only gone through seventeen sessions since we kicked off the session early February and the response from the participant is evident. Whenever they see our community coaches coming to their school, they run to them and start clapping in anticipation of the session. We have given out resilience score to every Participant to determine the level of their confidence and how they rate themselves generally in life.

 We believe that as we strengthen the resilience and life skills of Children through social football sessions, it will boost their communication skills, become resilient and bounce back from the challenges they face in their community for example lack of social amenities.

4^th Edition of Kick and Conserve

We have just concluded the 4^th edition of Kick and Conserve tournament. The theme of the tournament was “The Impact of Water Shortage in Sub-Saharan Africa” and especially Kenya. The tournament brought together 300 participants both boys and girls equally from 6 Community schools.  “This is my first time to play Kick and Conserve tournament and I am excited, am happy to represent my team during tree planting before the finals.” Bosibori from  Baraka Primary.

Through sports for social impact, we have been able to create safe spaces where Children can come and express their emotions out of the class room and in the field, we hope that through social interactions like  Kick and Conserve, we will create opportunity for and to reach Children in the community.  And for the first time, Kick and Conserve will be played during school holiday in the community centre in November this year, thank you for your support as it has made all these possible.

Links:

• Green-Kenya website