Using the power of soccer to fight HIV/AIDS

United States Television celebrity actress, comedian, and singer, Williams best known for her role as Marnie Michaels on the Home Box Office (HBO) comedy-drama series Girls, togetherwith her accompanying crew from ONE organization made a surprise visit to VAP offices to get to know more about its programs and the combination of football as a catalyst in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The team that arrived in a convoy of 3 vehicles including media team and security details were taken through VAP’s programs and later on headed for a site seeing visit in one of the schools where they also participated in the SKILLZ  Kenya, HIV/AIDS awareness program activities conducted by SKILLZ coaches. Away from her usual role as ‘Marnie Michaels’ on the HBO comedy drama series Girls, Allison was handed a new role as a ‘SKILLZ Coach’ on SKILLZ Kenya program during the few hours of the program implementation where she engaged participants in football based  activities, talks and discussions about HIV.

Young Leaders' Workshop

40 young leaders drawn from various schools representing Mrembo chapters converged for one day ‘Leadership’ training at VAP headquarters. The trainings covered a wide range of topics including: leadership, types of leaders, characteristics of leadership, roles and quality of a good captain, how to be a captain amongst other topics. Majority of the attendees being captains of their respective chapters had their captaincy buskets fully loaded with skillful and helpful information that would shape up not only their career but their future life.VAP has been building, strengthening and utilizing these chapters as launching pads of future girls’ football teams and program mentors.

Strengthening Our Communities

A group of parents, teachers, and community coaches of VAP programs from different communities and schools assembled at VAP offices for a one day meeting geared towards looking at the side mirrow of 2016 programs, challenges and successes. The meeting spearheaded by VAP senior and master coaches collected diverse views from attendees that would contribute towards building and strengthening programs that would develop a stronger community.Attendees were also taken through all VAP programs with each and every head of VAP department narrating the way they do their programs and the kind of support they would need from the attendees. The meeting concluded with a clear direction and need of working together towards building a stronger community.