Konza Football Club Wins Tropy on bare feet
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Organization: Konza Community Development Project
Sport - Soccer
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2007
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - Sport can eliminate poverty and anti-social behaviours
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - Less fortunate members of the community can farm, learn and play in an effort to eradicate poverty amongst our households.
What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change? - Lack of equipment for the young boys
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - We have been supplementing our needs through merry monthly go rounds.
How do you plan to grow your innovation? - By involving sponsors
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - Reduction of anti- social behaviours associated with poverty.
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries? - Reduced cases of drug abuse and commercial sex workers
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation? - Encouraged those who have dropped out of school due poverty to return and assisted in buying uniforms
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact? - Lack of financial support
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - Have already trained other youth to train others and duplicate our efforts to nearby communities/villages
If known, provide information on your finances and organization. - Please list: Annual budget, annual revenue generated, size of part-time, full-time and volunteer staff. Personal finaces from my salary.
What is the potential demand for your innovation? - Very high
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - Lack of access to finance
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - This came out as a result of 45 members of the village who came together to look for solutions of eradicating poverty. We felt that when the heads of the houses were in the farms,our children should be kept busy by playing football and we came up with a football club.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material. - This field has not been completed
Contact Information:
Samuel Musyoka
Administration Konza Community Development Project (Community Based Organization) Discussions about this entry |
Thanks Kataharina for your contribution. I wish to reply as follows:
1.At the moment we have no facilities. We are using the local Primary School grounds for practice and competion.
2.This Club is serving a community of about 300 youth/children whom we have organized them into five teams and compete within themselves and on invitation to other sublocations.
3. Apart from football which is practiced over the weekends and evenings, the youths involved are from various displines. Some are in tertially schools,others in local Primary Schools whilst the majority who have dropped from school due to lack of school fees are working the village farms and herding cattle.
4. I have not held talks or been trained on counselling and what I have been doing is through my life experience.I would very much appreciate any assistance to enable me attain training.
5. I am targeting any youth below the age of 18 years.
6.We have no partners. We are doing this through the community members and merry go rounds to raise funds to buy uniforms and balls.
7.It will assist if you can enable us partner with succeful clubs/projects here in Kenya if you know any.
Thanks
Samuel Musyoka
Hi there,
Your project sounds really interesting especially the fact that it was founded by the members of the community themselves. May I make a suggestion? May be you should add more information to your profile, although it seems like it is a fairly new project since it was only founded this year there is probabaly a lot more information you could add.
I wonder what kind of facilities do you have right now and how large is the community you work in? How often do you meet and how many children and youths participate? Who is actually doing the work and what are you doing apart from playing football, you said you helped children get off drugs do you have talks or life skill lessons? Which age group or gender do you target? Do you have any partners? I know of a number of different projects in Kenya that use football like the MYSA project, they have an entrance here as well may be you could partner up with another project or get some ideas.
cheers,
Katharina Meyer-Seipp
Spirit of Football Project Group
University of Erfurt
http://www.spiritoffootball.com