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Lucy Bronze Shirts for Auction!
Thank you to Lucy Bronze, who has very kindly donated two signed shirts for auction to raise funds for Team Kenya! Lucy plays for both the England Women’s team and the Women’s French club Olympic Lyonnais, who she signed with on a 3-year contract in August 2017. She became a member of the England Senior team on 26th June 2013 and has since then gone on to help England finish third in the 2015 World Cup. One of the shirts she has donated was worn during the Champions League. She is the first England Women’s player to ever win the…
Read moreJoanna’s Cycle Across Kenya
The last ten days have been an adventure of physical strength, mental determination and emotion. From cycling 225km under the African Sun to meeting some of the most inspirational people I have ever met in Ndhiwa, it has been a journey that I will look back and cherish forever. As I landed in Nairobi, on my very first trip to Africa, I was full off anticipation and nerves as what to lay ahead. Although I have recently set myself some gruelling physical challenges, I am not normally one to travel alone and set off on an adventure with a group…
Read moreYour Favourite Team Kenya Memories!
As we are in our 10th Anniversary Year, we asked our supporters for their favourite Team Kenya memories. As always, our incredible supporters delivered! Here are a selection of our favourite memories that were shared: Hannah O’Gorman – “After volunteering for Newcastle University Team Kenya Society and doing lots of fundraising events to raise money to support Anatalia, one of the best memories was receiving a letter from her. It was so amazing to hear how our support has helped Anatalia become an educated, empowered and happy young woman.” Katie Wilkinson – “So hard to just choose one! On…
Read moreKenya Cycle Challenge
Congratulations to our heroic Kenya Cycle Challenge team, who tacked 230 kilometres of dusty, rocky dirt tracks and steep slopes whilst encountering giraffe, zebra, hyena and wildebeest on their way to Ndhiwa! The group travelled into Nairobi and all participants chose to stay at Wildebeest Eco Camp, a beautiful, sustainable tourism site. Here, the group met John Blissett of Willetts Safaris, who developed and coordinated the cycle. The adventure began in the small village of Talek which is near Narok, a town in South West Kenya with a population of approximately 40,000 people, mostly Maasai. The team settled into Crocodile…
Read moreNCEDP Shortlisted for Pan-African Awards
We are happy to announce that our close delivery partner the Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) has been shortlisted for the Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education. The nomination is based on the programmes that NCEDP and Team Kenya have developed in Ndhiwa. The awards, hosted by The Saville Foundation and Teach A Man To Fish, celebrate organisations and charities leading hands-on entrepreneurship training programmes or using business solutions to fund education for young people in countries across Africa. NCEDP is one of 50 other organisations shortlisted for this years’ awards, with the winners to be announced in…
Read moreCarmel’s Placement in Ndhiwa
Earlier this year, I visited Ndhiwa on a research and volunteering placement with Team Kenya, as part of my MA International Development and Education at Newcastle University. In a few weeks, I’ll be handing in my dissertation and putting on my Team Kenya vest for the Great North Run. So, as two very different finish lines creep nearer, it feels a good time to reflect on what it’s all for. Here’s what it’s like to be on placement in Ndhiwa… Karibuni Eco Cottages Like most Team Kenya volunteers, I stayed at Karibuni. This place is much more than accommodation. It…
Read more18 Month Report: Brighter Futures
Here is our full Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Report on the Brighter Futures programme and the impact of the programme in its first 18 months. Thanks go to our volunteer, Alyssa Koenig, who wrote the majority of this report using information collected by our implementation partners, NCEDP. Background Brighter Futures is a current community outreach project run by the Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) and fully funded by partners Team Kenya UK, which aims to use football as a tool for engaging girls and boys in gender equality conversations to help reduce Gender Based Violence (GBV) and…
Read more18 Month Update: Brighter Futures
Our Brighter Futures programme uses mixed gender football as a vehicle to educate the community on issues, including gender-based violence and gender inequality. The programme initially provides interactive lessons to boys and girls at partner schools, before community outreach sessions are held to ensure that all groups within the community receive this vital education. Brighter Futures has now been operating for 18 months and evidence demonstrates that the programme is having a positive impact in reducing gender-based violence, child marriage and teenage pregnancies. In Ndhiwa, where Team Kenya works, only 15.7% of girls continue into secondary education – with gender-based…
Read moreTop Ten Achievements in Ten Years
#TeamKenya10 Guess what? It’s officially our 10th birthday this year. So, to celebrate, we’re going to shout about our top ten achievements since our lovely CEO, Valerie Wilson, founded us in 2008. 1. In the past decade, Team Kenya has impacted over 60,000 people with our programmes in Ndhiwa, including over 20,000 girls. 2. Our successful Raising Achievement programme – which works alongside schools to improve the quality of teaching and, you guessed it: raise achievement, is now being expanded to 28 schools. When we started this partnership in 2012, one partner school – Arina Primary, had no girls in…
Read moreRaising Achievement in Ndhiwa!
Team Kenya’s Raising Achievement programme works alongside four schools to improve the quality of teaching. Enhancing the quality of teaching gives girls and boys the opportunity to perform more effectively in school, and as the name suggests… raise achievement! The programme has had a positive impact upon our partner schools, with each school experiencing more students completing primary education, rather than leaving school at some point in their primary years. One partner school, Arina Primary, had no girls in the final year of primary school when partnership with Team Kenya was established six years ago. This number has increased to…
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