AFTERSCHOOL BOXING MENTORSHIP FOR 32 KIDS IN KENYA

BEYOND BOXING YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTION DURATION: 15 WEEKS
BUDGET REQUESTED- negotiating with KENYA TRANSITION INITIATIVE

INTRODUCTION
Pumwani and Eastleigh neighbourhoods of Kamukuji constituency have a high concentration of young people most of whom are jobless or engage in casual labour. This means that most young people spend their time idling around, a situation that often leads them to engage in negative and sometimes illegal behaviours and practices such as crime and usage of drugs and other substance abuse.
Boxing is a discipline based sport, A sport whose qualities are concentrated in individual focus, mental alertness and body conditioning. The sport assists in building self-esteem and confidence besides assisting in building positive and inter-dependent relations especially since club members train with each other. Besides this Boxing has the potential of becoming an employer either directly as a paid up boxer or through boxing related income such as gate collection. Income from boxing can be invested further to build capital to develop other income generating activities. Being a spectator sport Boxing attracts audiences, providing a platform where important developmental issues can be openly discussed and solutions suggested.
BEYOND BOXING is a 63 member group (55 Male, 8 Female). , and they have developed their capacity and focus to include mentorship for out of school and in school youth besides engaging on community awareness on important developmental issues. This has given the name BEYOND BOXING its legitimate value. Many young people in the group have shared their testimonies of change and Beyond boxing believes it can do more to support its membership, reach-out to other youths in the neighbourhoods and by extension positively impact on the larger community.

OBJECTIVES AND RESULTS/OUTPUTS
1. To recruit and engage 60 youths (40% young women) in Eastleigh and Pumwani as Beyond Boxing members divided into three Neighbourhood Chapters. (St Teresa, Garage and Pumwani)
Expected Results
i. 3 training and discussion groups will exist
ii. Issues affecting the youth in this neighbourhoods will be identified and discussed.
2. To impact social/life skills, Boxing skills and issue awareness skills to 100 young people (35% young women)
Expected Results
i. 60 members will have gained life/social skills such as confidence, self-esteem etc.
ii. 60 members will have gained Boxing related technical skills, will be physically fit.
iii. 60 members will have gained awareness on topical issues affecting them through weekly neighbourhood training and focus group discussion.
3. To create awareness on topical issues to the community through community boxing outreaches and after school engagements.
Expected Results.
i. 100 school going children will have been mentored
ii. 1,000 community members will have been reached and awareness on important issues created to them
ACTIVITIES
Recruiting Beyond Boxing Neighbourhood members.
Working with other youth groups, especially those within Eastleigh Consortium 3 recruitment exercises will be held at St Teresa, Garage and Pumwani. The recruitment sessions will include information sharing on the 3 week intervention and its components, demonstrations on boxing skills and sharing of the views. The 3 – 4 hour sessions will target 50 youths per locality and will aim to recruit at least 20, 40% of them young women.
Requirements
1. Recruitment venue
2. Registration and other documentation forms.
3. Information flier/Brochure.
4. Day Transport for facilitators.
5. Demonstration participants allowances.
6. Recruits refreshments.
Neighbourhood Weekly Sessions.
Once Every week members from each neighbourhoods will come together for a morning session open training and focus group discussion. After getting together they will go through participatory light training including jogging, isolation physical exercises among others, hopefully this will be realised in public. The second part will be a focus group discussion on a topic preselected by the neighbourhood members. One member will act as the reporter and document all information as discussed.
Requirements
1. Open space for Exercises
2. Venue for focus group discussion
3. Participants refreshments
4. Trainers and facilitators allowances.
Training: Boxing, Life skills and awareness.
Beyond Boxing will establish a gymnasium (GYM) all members from the 3 neighbourhoods will be allocated gym time. At the gym session the members will be trained on diverse skills in a mainstreamed format where the trainer will also be able to share tips and information on behaviour change and other life based information. Every a 30 minute topic awareness will be held at the gym just before warm-up. The Gym will be open daily. This includes video screening in partnership with Slum TV.