Our Work

We use football’s influence on the social fabric to engage a wider audience for youth and community transformation, and to listen to children’s voices.

Football is how we reach children who would not come to a meeting. Our nineteen-week programme pairs a league match with a life skills session delivered in a safe space, where female genital mutilation, menstrual health, gender-based violence and conflict can be discussed without an audience. Across 2024 and 2025 we reached 1,026 young people, 318 of them girls, with forty trained coaches, twenty-one of them women, in sixty-four teams run with the Football Kenya Federation.

Project: Shoot to Score, Not to Kill. Funded by the FIFA Foundation and GlobalGiving.

We increase enrolment, attendance and completion rates, especially among girls and vulnerable groups.

Girls in northern Kenya face a cultural and systemic bias that has held for generations. We work on the practical barriers that keep girls out of school, including sanitary provision and partial scholarships, alongside the life skills that help them stay.

Project: Educating Girls in Northern Kenya. Supported by GlobalGiving.

We bring communities on both sides of the Kenya to Ethiopia border into the same room. Peace committees and councils of elders are equipped to resolve disputes over grazing, water and boundaries before they escalate, and community priorities are carried into county and national policy, so that peace is written into law and not only into agreements.

Across 2024 and 2025 peace committees were trained in eleven locations and a new cross-border peace committee was established for the Sololo to Miyo corridor. More than 320 community members were trained in peacebuilding and disaster risk reduction, councils of elders were convened and a joint action plan produced, and we supported the County Government of Marsabit in drafting the Marsabit County Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Bill.

An independent evaluation in February 2025 recorded an 85 per cent reduction in conflict.

Projects:

1. Inter-community peace-building, cohesion and rights advocacy (ICPA), funded by The Christensen Fund.
2. Integrating Peacebuilding, Development and Humanitarian Efforts (IPDHE), funded by International Partnerships Austria.

Saving together, building together and sharing together. Through entrepreneurship training and small grants we strengthen the financial capacity of women, and the standing in their households and communities that comes with it.

Women form village groups and save a minimum of ten shillings a day, allocated three shillings to education, three to healthcare and four to small business. The groups lend the fund back to members and those loans have paid school fees, met hospital bills and started businesses.

Project: Qusanno. Supported by GlobalGiving.

We strengthen cohesion and resilience against climate change, improving livelihoods as a pathway to climate resilience.

This is pastoralist country, and climate decisions here allocate survival. Across 2024 and 2025 we distributed 1,675 tree and fruit seedlings with the Kenya Forest Service, and seventy-nine households received goats or chickens to restore an asset base. Water catchment areas in Moyale were protected through community sensitisation and the development of protection plans, and we supported the County Government’s Department of Water, Environment and Natural Resources through the public participation stage of its Natural Resource Management Policy review, and the Disaster Risk Management Directorate in developing standard operating procedures.

Projects:

1. Inter-community peace-building, cohesion and rights advocacy (ICPA), funded by The Christensen Fund, which also sits under Peacebuilding.
2. Building Resilient Households, supported by GlobalGiving.