Adolescent Health, HIV & SRHR
Accurate sexual and reproductive health information, HIV awareness, and access to youth-friendly services.
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.
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.
Six interconnected focus areas that work together to support the whole young person — body, mind and community.
Accurate sexual and reproductive health information, HIV awareness, and access to youth-friendly services.
Challenging gender norms and equipping young people — especially girls — to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.
Using sport as an entry point to keep young people — especially adolescent girls — engaged in school and learning.
Safe spaces that build emotional resilience, peer support, and healthy coping mechanisms for adolescents.
Trained coaches and mentors who recognise risks, refer cases, and uphold safeguarding standards on and off the pitch.
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
Our approach combines structured sport, evidence-based curricula and strong local partnerships — so the work is both measurable and sustainable.
Supporting young people to make informed decisions about their health, relationships and futures — through sport-based learning and peer mentorship.
Building links between sport, health and education systems so young people can access the services they need, when they need them.
Training community coaches and mentors with the skills, safeguarding knowledge and tools to deliver consistent, high-quality sessions.
Supporting interventions designed and led by communities themselves — so progress is owned locally and can continue long after a project ends.
The reach of our sport-for-development work to date, measured across health, education, leadership and community engagement.
We work with governments, schools, NGOs, development partners, corporate organisations, and sports institutions to scale innovative sport-for-development programmes across Kenya and beyond.
National and county-level partnerships for policy-aligned sport-for-development work.
Integrating sport-based learning into school life for retention and life skills.
Co-design and co-implement programmes that reach the most marginalised young people.
Sponsor programmes, equipment, or coaches — and engage employees in meaningful volunteering.
Leagues, federations and clubs helping to professionalise the field of sport-for-development.
Working with facilities and schools to embed sport-based health and safeguarding practices.
Partner, sponsor, or fund a sport-for-development programme — and put the power of play to work for Kenya's young people.