Sport Kenya Project #1885

Using the power of soccer to fight HIV/AIDS

by Vijana Amani Pamoja (VAP)

Project Report | Feb 7, 2017
New Team of HIV Fighters In the Communities

By Enouce Ndeche | Project Principle

New team of HIV fighters

A battery of 20 fresh,young and energetic local coaches mixed with former VAP program graduates were amongst the newly recruited coaches who attended the one week training of trainers’ course at VAP headquarters.The trainings included theories of HIV and the practical sessions integrated with football based activities with key HIV messages.Participants were also trained on :Childrens’right s and protection,how to include fun based activities in the learnings,understanding facilitation and coaching,participants’ interaction and group management ,how to be able to take perfect training session with the youth by effectively dealing with dufficult situations during program implementation,etc.The flagged off coaches armed with bullets of football based HIV messages are now hitting the grounds across various communities.

GlobalGiving Ranks VAP

As a result of its active engagement towards changing the lives of youth in the communities VAP received a ‘Top –Rank’ organization honor for 2016 from GlobalGiving, www.globalgiving.com. honor was accompanied by the stories that were amongst the most impressive for the year 2016 Our Top 16 Stories from 2016 (Scroll to story 14) which were highlighted on GlobalGiving website. VAP would like to direct all the credit to its ever busy monitoring and evaluation team has been working tirelessly on both qualitative and quantitative systems to making sure that the programs’ impact are well evaluated and monitored and that the participants and community are part of the building process.

Skillz Kenya Spreads Its Tentacles

2017 has seen the spread and the development of Skillz Kenya program into Westlands part of Nairobi, (Westlands Chapter). Five coaches based in Westlands part of Nairobi who were amongst the new coaches who graduated from the recent training of trainers’ workshop will be tasked to spearhead Skillz Kenya programs in the westlands parts of Nairobi including :Kawangware,Kangemi and its environ. The new coaches possess community role model status by also playing for various football clubs within Westlands. Despite implementing programs in schools and community centres, the team will work with other volunteers within their vicinity in organizing other football based outreaches reaching out to the Westlands youth and its population through; tournaments, football leagues and other awareness events.” Having witnessed the devastation of HIV and the way it has claimed the lives of many youth including my close friends, I feel a great honor to join my fellow youth and be in the forefront of creating awareness to the community that iam from.” Said 18 years old, Florence

Gauging Participants Knowledge on HIV

Now that it’s all systems go! With all schools fully operational, VAP coaches are scattered in several new schools within the city reaching out to youth with health messages. The first weeks of January coaches were engaging participants with signing of program contracts,commiting themselves into the program, adhering to the rules and regulations of program with mutual respect to one another’s information and answer as well as conducting program’s pre-surveys, to gauge the knowledge of participants towards the programs."Am happy to have learnt new information about HIV.Am eager to learn more about HIV from these coaches and whatever that am learning i will share the information with my friends at home and around the community."Said 14 year old Mwizani.

New Coaches for Westlands Chapter

Coaches working with Participants

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Jan 19, 2017
Football and Condoms Community Tournament

By Enouce Ndeche | Project Principle

Football fans

Armed with boxes and packets of condoms over the last festive season, replacing the usual ‘Santa Claus’ with ‘Mr. Condom’, VAP partnered with Koth Biro football tournament on its familiar battle ground of football activities, with footballers and the entire football fraternity that includes the community to distribute condoms to them. The annual totally sold-out Koth Biro football tournament which normally happens with its own vibe of community clubs rivalry and supremacy is arguably the oldest and the most electrifying tournament that produces the best of the best of Kenya’s top cream footballers and also serves as the bedrock of Kenya’s professional footballers. The tournament is normally played at Ziwani grounds during December holidays when all football leagues in Kenya are off-season thus creating an opportunity for top league players to reconnect with their parental community clubs in the tournament. Koth Biro which means ‘rain is coming’ in luo tribe is associated with muddy affairs due to the rainy season.

Scramble For Condoms

With hundreds of funs and community enjoying the holidays and thronging Ziwani sports ground to cheer up their respective football clubs, condoms were on a booming business especially with the many millennials who were in attendance. Despite receiving condoms, the receipents were instructed on how to use them and informed of the recent statistics from the National Aids Control Council (NACC), Kenya Aids Reponse Progress Report 2016; 15-24 years contributed 51% of adult new HIV infection in 2015 with 35,776 being new HIV infections, 268,586 living with HIV and 3,853 HIV related deaths. The tournament attracts and nurtures new football lads and pools them against well-established footballers.

Servicing The Service Providers

Contrary to their usual duty of providing security services to the community and at the tournament, police officers couldn’t afford to be left out of the bandwagon, they too had to take advantage of the precious commodity distributed provided by Mr Condom. A total of 36,000 condoms were distributed in various tournaments including football leagues and youth entertainment joints. With the success of the distribution, VAP is looking forward to integrate both male and female condom distribution in its Kick N Test football tournaments and leagues as well as reaching out to other external leagues and tournaments organized within Nairobi targeting the youth

Reaching To The Players!

Out of 90 teams from different places and communities of Nairobi that participated in the tournament, a half of them were presented with sachets and boxes of condoms that they could use as well as taking them to their respective clubs bases and training grounds to share with their colleagues. “HIV is real and many youth of my age are still living in denial and many are in a rush and don’t want to protect themselves when engaging into sex with their partners. Am glad to have a set of condoms that I will use and share with my colleagues at home. “Said 19 years old Karani from Opitos football club.

Global Giving Highlighting VAP!

It’s because of your generous support towards our programs that Global Giving has chosen our stories as amongst the most impressive stories of the year 2016 and highlighted this on Global Giving website. It’s our pleasure to share out our success with you being one of the people who make it happen through your generous contribution. You make check us out via Our Top 16 Stories from 2016 and please keep making it happen by continue making your contribution.Once you have clicked on the link,scroll to story number 14.

Scramble For Condoms

Servicing The Service Providers

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Dec 28, 2016
VAP Spices Up Kenya's Biggest Youth Tournament

By Enouce Ndeche | Project Principle

Condoms at the tournament

Armed with condoms on its familiar battle ground of football activities with footballers and the entire football fraternity that includes community, VAP partnered with Koth Biro football tournament to distribute condoms to players, fans and the community around. The annual Koth Biro football tournament which normally happens with its own vibe of community clubs supremacy is arguably the oldest and the most electrifying tournament that produces the BEST of the BEST of Kenya’s top cream footballers and also serves as the bedrock of Kenya’s professional footballers. The tournament is normally played at Ziwani grounds during December holidays when all football leagues in Kenya are off-season thus creating an opportunity for top league players to reconnect with their parental community clubs in the tournament. Koth Biro which means ‘rain is coming’ in luo tribe is associated with muddy affairs due to the rainy season. The tournament attracts and nurtures new football lads and pools them against well-established footballers. “Am glad to have a set of condoms that I will use and share with my colleagues at home. “Said 19 years old Karani from Opitos football club.

Special Announcement to our Global Giving Donors!

Help us end the year with bhang.With just a few days to the end of 2016,Global Giving is still running the recurring match campaign with 200% match. Any new recurring donations made on or before December 31^st will be matched up to 100% per donor while funds last. Also we would like to notify that we are still fundraising in the Year-End Campaign which is in full swing. Organizations that raise $5000 from 40 unique donors will receive social media promotion from GlobalGiving.Organizations that go above and beyond raising $10,000 or move from at least 50 donors will receive homepage time on Global Giving in 2017!.In this regard, we are absolutely depending on your generous contribution whether small or big as we are optimistic of reaching out to the targets.

Condoms at the tournament

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