Categories
Access to Sport - 
Employability - 
Environmental protection - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development - 
Strengthening partnerships
Access to Sport - Employability - Environmental protection - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Personal development - Strengthening partnershipsContext
Mathare slum is one of the poorest and most densely populated slums in Africa, where drugs and crime are ever-present. A lack of adequate sports facilities and organised grassroots sport for children and teenagers in informal settlements means that many turn to crime, substance abuse and all kinds of vices. There has been an increase in gender-based violence, teenage pregnancies and new HIV infections owing to poverty and a lack of knowledge and information.
Project goals
- Promote behaviour change among children, teenagers and women, to help reduce the issues affecting youth
- Create a social support structure for marginalised groups, including the urban refugees, and facilitate acceptance in their host communities to promote peaceful coexistence
- Mainstream gender in sport and address issues affecting young women and girls in sport
- Create a safe space for marginalised groups including urban refugees
Project content
- Sports for All football league: We will run an inclusive football league in the community that we serve, where everyone will be allowed to participate, irrespective of their social economic status, religion, education background, gender, sexual orientation and culture.
- Capacity-building: We will enhance the skills of our community coaches, teenagers and children through capacity development training.
- Life skills education: We will provide training in life skills for children, teenagers and women living in informal settlements in Nairobi.
- Coordinated meetings: We will hold monthly meetings with the stakeholders to check on project progress.
- Community outreach: We will conduct community outreach to raise awareness of issues affecting their communities, g. sexual reproductive health, substance abuse, etc.
- Monitoring and evaluation: We will evaluate the progress of project activities every three months.
Partner
