December is always a mass of activities, students
exited to finally end an academic year – well at least for those in the 8-4-4
System of education. With Christmas bells ringing around the corner, exams are
finally over and you get to hang out with your friends at home if you are not
or are lucky to travel to the village until its time to get back to school for
a whole brand new year!
For us at Girl Power we get super busy trying
to catch the girls before they all get lost in the frenzy of activities
holidays come with especially, December! Every holiday we try to make sure we
offer the girls ‘’a piece of our hearts’ our passion and what keeps us going,
the reason we exist –yes it is for them!
A whole week, at least 3 to 4
days of a bit of everything life skills, sports, entrepreneurial skills , some art, dance , a safe space and
many new girls that come every holiday so they can make friends with. A place
they feel they want to keep coming back if not for the learning, then at least
the fun in everything else, which they like most.
This time we had a total of 183 girls . 92
under 12 years and 91 above 13 years. 80 % were new, from around Langata,
thanks to a very excited lady who has been all excited and enjoys what we do
with and for the girls. We call her mama Jacky. She made sure not only her daughter and her
niece attended but their mass of friends who brought others too. Our own Girl
Power who couldn’t attend from Kibera because they were going back to their
villages, passed word to those who stayed behind.
Day
1: Tue 3rd Dec 2013
Day
2: 4th December
The morning session was all about Goal, with Under-12
girls working on , ‘’Pin the trash on the
can ‘’ with together with Queen., while
the older ones discussed ‘’Role Models
and Reaching out to our Community.’’ with Paullete, Jayoung and Mary Florence. The evening was a general
session on hygiene and reproductive health & responsible
relationships with Coach Rehema Akinyi and Mary Florence.
Day
: 5th December
This was our ‘learning basic bead work skills ‘’ day as well as ‘’Sports day’’. The girls really enjoyed the day, and there
were plenty of smiles and chatter, as they learned to design necklaces and
wrist bands for the upcoming women’s meeting in Uganda, with Susan Gathu
improving on the finished product. They then played tennis with coaches Evelyn, Jamin and Rich, and basketball
with coach Amoko, followed by skipping
rope and other singing games on their own.
Day:
6th December
This was the older girls’ fun day. Girls that
graduated from primary and high school had their mini pool party. All day in
the pool with barbequed food, soft drinks, music and dancing! They thoroughly
enjoyed their day and did not realise that the evening was wearing in!
9th
to 13th December 2013
Lots
of Thanks to
Dr.
Odera for the great leading through the year, all Sadili and Girl Power Staff, our volunteers and
people who occasionally step in to give a hand…Susan Gathu and one of our girls
from Huruma Girls who was great help, Purity Ndemo. , all the girls that have
been with us in 2013 and before, our Face Book friends, those who ‘liked’’ our
pages, twitter followers, blog readers, Women Win and all her partners for the
support and taking time to mentor our girls through the year, LVCT –Kenya ,
KMWA and Vital Voices for helping us end year in a great note!
Story
& Report done by
Jayoung
Naphtalie Margaret
Project
Assistant
Girl
Power Clubs Africa
and edited by Dr. Liz Odera
Head Professional
Sadili
Oval Sports Academy.
