Social Change through Sport for 5000 Kibera Youth

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Summary

This project promotes ethno-religious and gender cooperation, and leadership, through sports to 5000 youth in one of the world's most densely populated urban settlements: Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya). progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

More than 700,000 people live in the Kibera slum (Nairobi, Kenya), an area the size of New York City's Central Park. Over half of Kibera residents are youth under the age of 15. Because Kibera has a violent history of ethnic and religiously-based violence, CFK uses sports as a tool for fighting this violence with 5000 Kibera youth. In exchange for playing in multiethnic soccer tournaments, boys and girls participate in community clean-ups, HIV/AIDS awareness events, and leadership trainings

Activities

If we provide soccer equipment, uniforms, and skills-training opportunities for 5000 Kibera youth, we will reduce ethnic, religious and gender violence, by keeping kids off the street and teaching them to work together.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $532
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,468
Total Funding Goal: $25,000

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The CFK Youth Sports Program will engage more than 5000 young people in Kibera, allowing them to learn to cooperate with people of different ethnicities, religions, and gender from an early age, thus reducing slum violence.

Project Message

You start seeing projects like CFK expand, and over time you see more pathways out of Kibera. More people are able to grow businesses. More young people are able to take advantage of education.
- Barack Obama, US Senator & Democratic Presidential Candidate

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Rye Barcott,
President
FedEx Global Education Center, Third Floor
301 Pittsboro St, Campus Box 5145
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
United States
330-904-4859
Email:

Project Sponsor

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Organization

Carolina for Kibera, Inc.
FedEx Global Education Center
UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Box 5145
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-5145
United States
919-843-6842
http://cfk.unc.edu

Learn more about Carolina for Kibera, Inc. and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Sport.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 19, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 01, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

CFK Day in Kibera

By Rye Barcott - Founder and President , December 19, 2008 04:08 PM

The end of November meant it was time for the annual “CFK Day” in Kibera. The main objective of this day is to recognize and reward all of the committed teams, groups and individuals who dedicate their time to CFK activities throughout the year.

This year’s celebration was attended by more than 5000 youth representing each CFK program as well as many other organizations and initiatives within in the slum. Throughout the week, peer educators were able to recruit 114 young people for VCT services through individual talks and group sessions at the soccer fields. On the actual day, the youth of the Sports Program held a procession through the slum with banners reading “Tuliza Amani Mtaani,” or “We Want Peace in Kibera.” Over 1000 youth made the 4km hike as part of the parade!

In addition to the soccer finals for several of the teams (U-12, 14, 17, and 20), CFK also held a community forum in which the youth participated in the reading of poems and narratives as well as the performance of dances and skits. Throughout the day youth were rewarded with uniforms, balls and other soccer equipment, as well as school uniforms, books and pens. Finally, CFK also conducted an awards ceremony in which Provost Leadership Awards were awarded to emerging young leaders within the community.

According to our Executive Director, “it was a day of fun that went from 7am to 9pm”!

As always, we welcome your comments and feedback. On behalf of the youth, staff, and volunteers of Carolina for Kibera, thank you all for your support! Without your generosity, our work would not be possible.

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