Sadili Oval Sports Academy

Sadili Oval Sports Academy is a registered NGO with the Government of Kenya, with the main focus of improving the lives of up to 4000 children and youth annually, through education, by using the power of sports.

Offices Location: Civil Servants Estate in Langata Constituency, and Katwekera in Kibera Constituency in Nairobi County.

Our Focus: To reduce poverty and distress through health improvement, education and sports amongst children and youth. We promote sports, health and education as a way to improve life and provide an income in the future.

We provide education scholarships in the following manner:

• Create play spaces in and around high density and low income urban communities.
• Run Training Camps during April, August and December of each year, that provide specialised training in sports and community responsibility to talented but otherwise disadvantaged children from Kibera, Nyalenda, Langata and Mombasa,. During this time, we also offer training seminars on HIV-AIDS, WASH and leadership and develop peer educators.
• Improve classroom facilities and provide books and learning materials to poor children. This includes improvement of walls and floors of classrooms in Kibera to reduce infection.
• A squad of players of the program are supported to play regional tournaments and use the opportunity to promote the ideals of the program beyond their borders.
• Every effort is often made to integrate these children into the society through allowing some children from more affluent societies to participate in selected camps in the program. 50% of the opportunities are open to girls. Since its inception in 1997, we have trained over 140000 children and youth through the camps and weekly training. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRdtpnTsYE
• A select number of talented but under-privileged children from the East African region also receive further scholarship for our homeschooling program at Malezi School. We now target 40 boys and girls aged between 9 and 18 years, who receive a 1 to 2-year schooling. http://vimeo.com/71362314
• We train an average of 42 out-of-school youth annually, for self-employment and job placement opportunities through teaching skills in sports, coaching and making of basic sports equipment.
• We develop “green practices” amongst the children and youth through practical environmental action: tree planting and cleanups.
• We promote the girl-child in health, educational and entrepreneurial activities.

Our Main Programs: 2024-2028 are as follows:

We work in these parts of Kenya: Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nyando, Siaya, Kwale, Mombasa and Busia Counties

The projects and what we intend to address:

1. Court of Dreams Project:

A health and hygiene project targeting nursery and primary children below 10 years through kids’ tennis, athletics and basketball.

Goal: To improve school attendance, reduce drop out and absenteeism through preventable illness amongst the poor areas in Kenya.

Activities include: a) training of teachers in health and improvement of sustainable environment. b) Donation of school books and play materials c) Creation of appropriate training materials for reading and mathematics in lower primary and nursery.

2. Girl Power Clubs Africa Project:

This is a leadership program that uses sport to promote education, health and entrepreneurship. We are currently based in Siaya, Busia, Lanet, Homa Bay and Nairobi, where we target 1700 girl leaders a year.

This program involves the following activities, divided into 3 parts of the year and involves:

a) Regular sport activities, coached by female coaches, where possible, in conjunction with life skills sessions.

b) Building the capacity of the coaches, facilitators (especially girls and women) to enable effective quality scale up of our program.

c) Organising community engagement activities or events, organised and led by the beneficiaries.

d) Support a leadership pathway for program beneficiaries, to become Girl Power Champions and other peer leaders to practice and refine their leadership skills. At the end of 1-2 years, a girl graduates as a Girl Power Champion, giving way to a new recruit to begin. The Girl Power Champions are now leaders who support and mentor the next generation of Girl Power cubs.

3. emPower My Life!

Development of a toolkit designed for any coach implementing the emPower my life! Project in Kibera and in Nairobi. The content of this toolkit allows coaches to plan, create and conduct sport ad play-based sessions that aim to reduce sexual violence and HIV/AIDS among school children. The toolkit also provides a peer-to peer learning for Sadili’s Junior Girl Power Clubs and Ushindi Boys Clubs, enabling teenagers to lead the fight against sexual violence. The target group includes girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 11 from non-privileged backgrounds in Nairobi, Kwale, Siaya and Busia.

5. Project Sakafu

Project Sakafu builds safe low maintenance classroom floors where children below 6 years attend school in Kenya. The floors provide the children with a healthy, active playing and learning safe site within a protected atmosphere, decreasing incidences of children having contact with pathogens in the classroom, while providing an improved learning through play facility for better health.