By Sarah Forde | Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Coordinator
August was a very busy month for Moving the Goalposts with a Sports and Leadership camp for over a hundred teenage girls. Courses were run on coaching skills, refereeing, first aid and other sessions were carried out by peer educators on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health and rights. The girls who were trained will now go back to run their own teams and football leagues in the remote rural areas of Kilifi district. MTGK thanks all its current donors, Safaricom Foundation, Ford Foundation, Alistair Berkley Trust, UK Sport and Mama Cash for supporting the camp.
In July MTGK’s 14 year old Mbeyu Akida (pictured above while training at the August camp) was selected to represent Kenya at the All Africa Games in Algiers. She was chosen as one of only two young sport stars from Kenya to participate in a youth forum at the Games. Hongera (Kiswahili: Congratulations!) Mbeyu!
Also in August , 10 young leaders from MTGK completed a counseling training course with the Kenya Association of Professional Counselors. They will now provide counseling services for all girls in the organization.
At the end of August the MTGK United girls’ football team won the provincial tournament at the Mombasa Show in front of a crowd of over 3,000 people. They were featured on National TV.
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