Kampala school of Excellence Ministries has been lauded for its contribution in using sports a a tool for community mobilisation. This according to Yianny Iaonnou, Coaching Development Manager at Tackle Africa is a sure way of mobilising communities for development. This was at KSEM's weekly program in Naguru a suburb of Kampala. Tackle Africa is a UK sports charity which execute health messaging and HIV/AIDS education through soccer. Tackle Africa is currently involved with partners on projects in more than 6 African countries.
Tackle Africa also does coaching education for coaches involved with youths in the communities especially with regard to Coaching with Health Messaging. Currently they have trained a large number of youth coaches in Uganda and this January over 20 coaches undertook the Beginners level course. Kampala School of Excellence Ministries has sent one of its youth coaches Moses Kalanzi for the course.
Kampala School of Excellence partners with the Uganda EX-Players Association to organise soccer clinics for children and youths in a number of areas in Kampala and beyond. This year alone the Partnership with the EX-players supported by SAMONA beauty products has reached a total of 800 children. Three Sports Clinics have been organised in the different divisions of Kampala starting with Central Division at Nakivubo Stadium, Kibuli Police and Naguru Police grounds.
Yianny was flanked by Ndunda Mukonyo, Tackle Africa Project Manager for Kenya who also manages a girls soccer project in Kenya aimed at empowering young girls and protecting them from social evils. Ndunda advised KSEM to consider reaching out to the girls and also to add Community sanitation work as part of the organisation's strategic activities.
KSEM runs a girls ministry called Girls Hope specifically founded to cater for the needs both spiritual and material of the young girls in the communities where we operate. The ministry is managed by Brenda Kawuma, a former top model and sports woman.
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