Football For Hope
This project's parent organization is Wilsen Initiative
It operates in Kenya
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Best New Project
More about Football For Hope
Many young people in the streets of Mathare slums, just “hanging out” with nothing much they do, from our perspective getting themselves with negative influencing factors like violence, drugs, tribalism as a method for them to express themselves, to get the feeling of being accepted, to get the sense of belonging to a peer group or other social groups.
In addition, we see a lack of positive role models, which can help young people to find their way, to discover their inner strength and desire at an early stage to influence their personal development in a positive way.
Through our football program we have been able to establish platforms that foster team work, linkages and skills development in other fields that encourage youth to continue learning and use their football talents in connecting with new opportunities.
In 2012 I attended the do school fellowship in Hamburg (http://thedoschool.org/) were I connected with other change makers for a two months stay and last year I at-tend the Amani Institute fellowship http://amaniinstitute.org/ in Nairobi.
This platform has enabled me and my team in researching, planning and piloting our concepts using the best practices.