The Mathare Roots Youth Group is based in the sprawling Mathare slum in Nairobi. This is the second largest slum in Africa with many differing needs and challenges for the 500,000+ people who live there. Mathare Roots Youth Group has a slogan 'From Roots to Fruits' which highlights the youth group's role in trying to provide mentoring, positive role models, education, opportunity and hope to the young people growing up in Mathare.
Mathare Roots Youth Group would like to establish a link with a football club or a football-related community group or youth group based in an inner city area in UK , so that they can share support, mutual ideas & experience with other local youngsters, perhaps with the possibility of some football-related cultural exchange visits, fundraising/sponsorship, etc.
Football and other sports can play a strong role in helping to keep youngsters on the right track and out of trouble, at the same time helping to uplift whole communities. The youngsters and their families in Mathare are in great need of this additional support, particularly following the terrible effects of the post-election violence which has taken place in Mathare since the disputed presidential election in December 2007. Football is being recognised and much appreciated as a great unifying factor for the now traumatised community of Mathare.
There is exciting potential for local UK-based football teams and their associated local youth groups &/or a local communities to link up with Mathare Roots and to help support the mentoring of Kenyan youngsters living in Mathare. This linkage could potentially take a variety of forms which could help to provide both moral & practical support for the 'Mathare Roots' Youth Group and the local community that it helps to support in the Mathare slum, as well as publicity for the local football team in the UK. It is also an opportunity for the football team's associated youth and community groups to potentially learn and benefit from sharing experiences of growing up in a challenging environment. There are many issues that may be in common to youth growing up in Mathare & in communities elsewhere, including (for example) the relative poverty of inner city areas, youth unemployment, homelessness, gangs, gun & knife crime, drugs, teenage pregnancy, single parents, violence, poor education, health issues, and so on.
If your local football team or football community is interested in helping to establish a link with Mathare Roots, please contact Elijah Kanyi (Email: monelijah@yahoo.com).
Elijah is an active member of Mathare Roots Youth Group, a talented footballer and a cameraman, and is a great role model for other youngsters living and growing up in Mathare as well as those living in other deprived inner city areas around the world.
More information about Mathare Roots Youth Group and the challenges of living and growing up in the Mathare slum can be found at the following website links:
'Postcards from Kenya' (CCI-Kenya blogspot)
'From Roots to Fruits' (Mathare Roots Youth Group wesbite)
'Living & Bleeding' website (images and information about life in Mathare)
Some more photo's of Mathare
MYSA (Mathare Youth Sports Association)
Mathare Roots Youth Group would like to establish a link with a football club or a football-related community group or youth group based in an inner city area in UK , so that they can share support, mutual ideas & experience with other local youngsters, perhaps with the possibility of some football-related cultural exchange visits, fundraising/sponsorship, etc.
Football and other sports can play a strong role in helping to keep youngsters on the right track and out of trouble, at the same time helping to uplift whole communities. The youngsters and their families in Mathare are in great need of this additional support, particularly following the terrible effects of the post-election violence which has taken place in Mathare since the disputed presidential election in December 2007. Football is being recognised and much appreciated as a great unifying factor for the now traumatised community of Mathare.
There is exciting potential for local UK-based football teams and their associated local youth groups &/or a local communities to link up with Mathare Roots and to help support the mentoring of Kenyan youngsters living in Mathare. This linkage could potentially take a variety of forms which could help to provide both moral & practical support for the 'Mathare Roots' Youth Group and the local community that it helps to support in the Mathare slum, as well as publicity for the local football team in the UK. It is also an opportunity for the football team's associated youth and community groups to potentially learn and benefit from sharing experiences of growing up in a challenging environment. There are many issues that may be in common to youth growing up in Mathare & in communities elsewhere, including (for example) the relative poverty of inner city areas, youth unemployment, homelessness, gangs, gun & knife crime, drugs, teenage pregnancy, single parents, violence, poor education, health issues, and so on.
If your local football team or football community is interested in helping to establish a link with Mathare Roots, please contact Elijah Kanyi (Email: monelijah@yahoo.com).
Elijah is an active member of Mathare Roots Youth Group, a talented footballer and a cameraman, and is a great role model for other youngsters living and growing up in Mathare as well as those living in other deprived inner city areas around the world.
More information about Mathare Roots Youth Group and the challenges of living and growing up in the Mathare slum can be found at the following website links:
'Postcards from Kenya' (CCI-Kenya blogspot)
'From Roots to Fruits' (Mathare Roots Youth Group wesbite)
'Living & Bleeding' website (images and information about life in Mathare)
Some more photo's of Mathare
MYSA (Mathare Youth Sports Association)
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