Using the power of soccer to fight HIV/AIDS

Joyce is a class Four student at Undugu primary school whom despite not being an active and a class act footballer in her school, has managed to capitalize and utilize the power of football to learn various life skills through participating in football based activities coiled with HIV prevention messages. “I had no idea of playing football, neither did I have information about HIV but through Skillz Mtaani HIV project and its simple football based activities, I have gained confidence and started to play football and learnt more about HIVand how to make make my own informed healthy decisions.” Said Joyce

Sustainability Bootcamp

Brought together under the auspices of YETU initiative, 14 organizations from across the country with VAP in the circuit gathered at the outskirts of Nairobi for a 4 days boot camp tied with an aim of cultivating a culture of community philanthropy through capacity building,research,technology development and private sector engagements. The boot camp generated a fertile ground for the organizations to interact and learn from various invited representatives from various local corporates and foundations with reputable experiences in the field of philanthropy and corporate affairs. Lessons and comparisons of past and present capacity building approaches were shared out as solutions to determine new approaches while evaluating the role of competitions in capacity building to enhance organization’s sustainability and generation of quality impact was also realized.