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Inuka For Community · Project

Sport for Development

Transforming communities through the power of sport — using structured football-for-development methodologies to create safe spaces where young people build confidence, develop life skills, access accurate health information, and connect to essential services.

LocationKenya (national)
FocusYouth & adolescents
MethodologyTackle football-for-development
StatusActive
Sport for Development — youth football
About the project

More than play

At Inuka for Community, we harness the power of sport to improve the lives of children and young people across Kenya. We believe that sport is more than play — it is a powerful tool for promoting health, education, gender equality, leadership, and social inclusion.

Using structured football-for-development Tackle methodologies, we create safe spaces where young people build confidence, develop life skills, access accurate health information, and connect to essential services. Our programmes strengthen communities by bringing together schools, health facilities, government institutions, families, and community leaders to support positive youth development.

Our Focus

What our sport programmes address

Six interconnected focus areas that work together to support the whole young person — body, mind and community.

Adolescent Health, HIV & SRHR

Accurate sexual and reproductive health information, HIV awareness, and access to youth-friendly services.

Gender Equality & GBV Prevention

Challenging gender norms and equipping young people — especially girls — to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.

Education & School Retention

Using sport as an entry point to keep young people — especially adolescent girls — engaged in school and learning.

Mental Health & Psychosocial Wellbeing

Safe spaces that build emotional resilience, peer support, and healthy coping mechanisms for adolescents.

Child Protection & Safeguarding

Trained coaches and mentors who recognise risks, refer cases, and uphold safeguarding standards on and off the pitch.

Youth Leadership & Life Skills

Mentoring youth champions who lead teams, coach peers, and advocate for issues that affect their generation.

Sport is more than play — it is a powerful tool for promoting health, education, gender equality, leadership, and social inclusion.

— Inuka For Community
How we work

Building impact through community-driven partnerships

Our approach combines structured sport, evidence-based curricula and strong local partnerships — so the work is both measurable and sustainable.

01

Empowering informed choices

Supporting young people to make informed decisions about their health, relationships and futures — through sport-based learning and peer mentorship.

02

Strengthening local systems

Building links between sport, health and education systems so young people can access the services they need, when they need them.

03

Capacity-building local coaches

Training community coaches and mentors with the skills, safeguarding knowledge and tools to deliver consistent, high-quality sessions.

04

Sustainable, locally led solutions

Supporting interventions designed and led by communities themselves — so progress is owned locally and can continue long after a project ends.

Impact at a glance

Our impact in numbers

The reach of our sport-for-development work to date, measured across health, education, leadership and community engagement.

2,000+Community members reached
530+Adolescents in care & treatment
20+Health facilities partnered
20+Community coaches trained
20+Youth champions mentored
5+Development focus areas
Partner with us

Let's use the power of sport

We work with governments, schools, NGOs, development partners, corporate organisations, and sports institutions to scale innovative sport-for-development programmes across Kenya and beyond.

Governments

National and county-level partnerships for policy-aligned sport-for-development work.

Schools

Integrating sport-based learning into school life for retention and life skills.

NGOs & Development Partners

Co-design and co-implement programmes that reach the most marginalised young people.

Corporate Organisations

Sponsor programmes, equipment, or coaches — and engage employees in meaningful volunteering.

Sports Institutions

Leagues, federations and clubs helping to professionalise the field of sport-for-development.

Health & Education Systems

Working with facilities and schools to embed sport-based health and safeguarding practices.

Get involved

Help us inspire healthier lives and brighter futures.

Partner, sponsor, or fund a sport-for-development programme — and put the power of play to work for Kenya's young people.