FOCUS (Facing Our Challenges Using Sports) Program
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>View discussions about this entry País: Kenya
Organization: SACRENA
Sport - Soccer
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2007
Project URL: http://www.globalgiving.com/pr/1800/proj1713a.html
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - Empowering young girls through initiation of garbage collections through soccer ball juggling training sessions to generate support to orphans educational needs and HIV/AIDS education.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - This project idea is to help the lives of 250 girl-child soccer champs through daily garbage collections at the Kisumu city slum of Manyatta while also displaying soccer skills. The program will target neighbors to pay a nominal fee to have their plots cleared by the girls after school, prior to soccer practice. The total amount raised monthly will go towards supporting their own education costs and basic needs. At the fields, after garbage collections, soccer practices takes places at the teams’ playing grounds and for those in attendance, topical HIV/AIDS messages, health education, and other services sacrena sporting organization offers to the community shall be offered freely to the youths and other soccer playing community members each day. This shall target 200 people daily directly with positive messages. School time shall be mandatory for teens participating in this project, so collection and practice time is limited 1.5 hours after which, they must return home for homework
What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change? - Delayed access to interested partners to help support this piloted project. Innovative funding is limited and regulations may limit funding to do this work. The community’s high expectations, dependency syndrome from the beneficiaries and the parents/guardians.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - Through training sessions and voluntarily garbage collections after schools hours. The community members shall also participate in positioning the garbage in the strategic areas for easy access.
How do you plan to grow your innovation? - The FOCUS project will first start within the slums of Manyatta in Kisumiu. In the first 6 months as a pilot project then it shall be shared with other members as a best practice to be rolled out to other 4 other slums in the implementing organization (SACRENA) shall have identified the Success, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats Kisumu. The FOCUS project shall help sustain girls who play soccer that lack school fees to get down to their own community to pull existing resources via garbage collection to help met some of their own school fees and basic needs (e.g. sanitary pads) and address crosscutting issues as a vulnerable group. The strength of this project shall rely on the community good will, members participations and the counselors volunteer at sacrena sporting organization and the entire community response their own problems and encourage new talented and skills to girl-child participation in soccer sport
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - Girls’ soccer as a means of pulling together community resources to address challenging issues that threatens the wellbeing of the society.
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries? - We shall make sure that every girl child headed engage in soccer through girl-girl approach in purchasing school uniforms, School fee payments, food, shelter and medication:
Sacrena Sporting have been:
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation? - Number of the community members reached by the garbage collections Girls Sports Ambassadors and HIV topical messages.
-Number of the Soccer Trainings held weekly and the plots targeting for service in mentioned days, and trainings held on waste management. -Number of community persons reached by the sports soccer skills and cleanups and those who gained /benefits out of it. -Number of tournaments held during the period of the proposal. -Number of girl child benefiting from the garbage collection What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact? - Inadequate resources or lack of accessing these grants. More so if hard regulations from well -wishers are over demanding and perhaps high expectations that we cannot offer contrary to our expectations and impacts. Timing of the disbursements can also daily to day implementations and can create a barrier the impact. The units estimated can also differ interfering by the budget
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - o We shall sustain the project through the innovative second project of Poultry keeping that Sacrena have already also through Garbage Collection Units the total monthly 20% of the collections to sustain the group., the organization through the community ambassadors will charge the residents
o Sustainability through already trained community sports ambassadors in waste management skills in which includes components of recycling waste, which shall be used to increase their incomes. 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. The information has been done is that we have procedures for our members enrolments fee of 50 US cents. This through our efforts in tackling problems we met global giving during the launch of Sports for Social Change in Nairobi-Kenya. Through global giving the project currently raising more than 200,000 USD to support 250 orphans with basic education, medication, food and shelter. Sacrena sporting is also a member of the Sports for Social Change.Sacrena also is in the lists of the www.sport4change.com as a grassroots sports body in Kenya. The FOCUS project shall also will be sustained through 10% out the funds raised from the www.sport4change.com and www.globalgiving.com/1713
What is the potential demand for your innovation? - The community members that will be reached are targeted 25,000 people participating directly piloted within Manyatta slums then it will be rolled out to other areas of Sacrena sporting coverage areas. The project demand that the identified Volunteers and staffs will be motivated but not them employed except agreed by our donors. They shall put 100% of their time in the FOCUS project
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - Reason of barriers to finance sustability at Sacrena sporting is that we haven’t have donors who interest. The cash coming in since our start is not there because lack information, resources and good access linkages for the partners to help.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - SACRENA is a Faith Based Organization started in the year 2000 and was registered as a Self Help Group with the Kenyan Ministry of Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services–Kisumu District KSM/DSS/CD/1/SH NO. 10163 of 9th June 2005.Sacrena is in Kenya at the City of Kisumu-Manyatta Slums, Sacrena Organization is using sports in development and programs. The aim of the organization is to help communities and religious leaders to open-up and be change agents in breaking the six evils: Stigma, Silence, Discrimination, Denial, Inaction and Misaction (SSDDIM) through supporting and engaging in sport activities to:
o Care and support orphans, Girl Child, Grandmothers, the physically changed and the People Infected with HIV virus. o Trainings: coaching son life skills, behaviors change and topical preventive measures. o Skills of networking,, referrals and linkages. o Identifying sport talents and organizing competitive outreaches and extravaganzas. o Lobbying and Advocacy for education and health care for all o Providing of the physiological components within sports arena o Creating income-generating activities as a means of empowerment to both target youths and communities. o Motivations of self-help events and activities renewing of cultural values. o Promotion of responsibility and visibility. o Identifying resources by taping and fund raising to championing passion. Sacrena Sporting Organization Core values:Respect, Inclusion, Collaboration, Empowerment and Sporting Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material. - Mr. Wycliffe Mboya Ngoya is the founder and the CEO of Sacrena Sporting Organization. He has a Masters of Public Health (Nairobi University), a Masters in Christian Theology (Nairobi International School of Theology), accredited by the JG as a consultants and facilitator. He has obtained degrees in accounts and project management with Kenya School of Accountancy. Wycliffe grew up as an orphan not knowing when his parents died though grew up in the hands of relatives.
Contact Information:
Wycliffe Mboya
Founder SACRENA (NGO) Discussions about this entry
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Hi Wycliffe,
I run a new foundation, Women Win, which gives financial support to projects that empower women and girls through sport. I really enjoyed reading your entry and have the same questions as the people below. I would very much be interested in your response. Your project sounds both useful and innovative! Looking forward to reading more about it. Warmly,
Astrid Aafjes
Women Win
www.womenwin.org
Dear Wycliffe,
Thanks for your entry into the competition. We love the combination between social and environmental outcomes. Similar to the Changemakers teams, we had a few clarifying questions:
• Is this project an idea or has it been implemented yet?
• Have you done any market research to conclude that residents will pay the nominal fee for the daily garbage collections?
• Will those fees collected in aggregate pay for the program as well as fund stipends to the girls? If so, what percentage would go to each?
• How are the girls selected for the program? Is their an age range that will work best?
• What is your theory of change specifically? If you are interested, we just recently posted a general piece on the contest criteria – innovation, scale, and impact – that might help you answer this question. (see http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/729#comment-2686.)
If you have specific questions on this posting, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Sincerely,
Paul Bloom
Senior Research Scholar of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Suzanne Steffens
CASE Scholar
MBA Student, Class of 2008
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Hello-
I also admire your proposal because it does include a focus on the environment. For more information on how people have taken on garbage collection in unserved areas and made money and created social change, look up Albina Ruiz and her work in Peru.
My other comments also reiterate an earlier comment about focus. I think your goals are admirable and you obviously are starting from a place where you already have worked in this area and where you have had success with other projects. What makes this exciting is that you have an opportunity for revenue-generation and you have a focus on women/soccer/garbage collection (as well as many secondary and tertiary foci ...that is where some of us are possibly getting lost). With this focus, I think you need to think further about who will pay for the garbage collection, how the girls will feel about doing the collection, keeping the girls safe from dangerous garbage, and perhaps getting corporate sponsors from waste management corporations around the world...they are huge companies and some of them must have CSR and sustainability goals that you could identify and build upon. Also, I think you might need to strengthen the tie between the garbage collection and sports/soccer. As I understand from my fast read of the above, the link is that the girls are clearing their playing field. Is this enough incentive? If the girls clear other areas, what about revenue sharing (some for your org/some for the sports goals/some for the girls? Then, sports is advanced, more areas are cleaned, and the girls and their families have a chance to make money- which might mean other family and community members will help.
Happy to work with you to find even more ties...and I apologize if I read the above too fast and missed a connection.
Best,
Lisa
Lisa Jones Christensen
Faculty Commentator
UNC Chapel Hill
It is very exciting to have you entry in the Changemakers competition. I love your focus on waste management and recycle. It is a very important project and one of only a few entries that consider the environment. Great work! Do you have any estimates of approximately how much Garbage you have collected since the start of your project? What has been the feedback from the community? Are you working with any other organizations?
Finally, I encourage you to connect with Emily Pierce the Vice President of Carolina for Kibera. CFK is working on similar projects involving youth, soccer and the community. You can email cfk@unc.edu and the link to the entry is below.
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/1975
Good luck and keep up the great work!
All the best,
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Dear Wycliffe:
There are some wonderful ideas that you present here and that you are working to carry out. We are still unclear on the exact delivery model, how will the programs be carried out on a day to day basis? You also appear to be starting up various initiatives, how do they build on one another and help strengthen the overall goals? We would love some more detailed description of how the programs work.
Thank you kindly in advance for your response!
Best,
Changemakers Team
Wycliffe Mboya Ngoya
CEO and the Director
Sacrena Sporting Organization
P.O.Box 138-40123
Kisumu-Kenya
Tel:+254 724 799 727
email:sacrenakenya@yahoo.com
email:wycliffemboya@yahoo.com
skype name:sacrenakenya