Kibera Girls Run Excellent Sports Meet!

February ended on a great note with the Girl Power Clubs' Monthly Sports Day with over 300 girls from Olympic primary, Olympic high school, St. Catherine and Nazarine primary forming teams and getting a chance to exhibit their talents in rugby, netball, volleyball and soccer, while interacting with each other.  The patrons present (Mr. Orao from Oympic high, Mr. William Ochieng of St. Catherine and Mr. Charles of Nazarine Primary school. Mr. Ben Okoth of St .Catherine) had little to do as the girls took over the running of the day, from signing up entrants, forming the teams, teaching those who did not know how to play patiently and encouraging the shy girls to interact more. 

The girl leaders who both organized and refereed the sports were as follows:

GAME	REFEREES
FOOTBALL	Mary Bahati, Dorcas Kungu, Maria Wanjiru
NETBALL	Diana Kerubo, Sylvia Akoth, Sheila Sayo , Christine Kemunto
VOLLEYBALL	Sharon Juma(Rusha Vashnazi), Judith Atieno(Kroch) Zulea Achieng
RUGBY	Carlcy Hongo

The clubs were divided into teams with own chosen names and each team was expected to play all the sports.

Some of the scores are as shown in the table below.

FOOTBALL
1ST	2ND			3RD		4TH		5TH			MATCHES PLAYED
OLYMPIC  V CHALLENGERS	TIGER  V ROVERS			HARE V  ZEBRA		WILDORF  V CHEETERS		CHEETERS V SHINERS			TEAMS
4     -     5	3   -  0			1   -   0		0    -    1		2-  1			SCORE
NETBALL
1ST	2ND			3RD		4TH		MATCHES PLAYED
AVANGERS   V  REDSTARS	SAMAKI V PAPA			CHALLENGERS  V OLYMPIC		AVANGERS   V  LIONS		TEAMS
1-    7	2 - 0			8  - 12		0  - 4		SCORE
RUGBY
1ST		2ND			3RD		4TH		MATCHES PLAYED
WILDDORF V PINK SPARKLING STARS		AVANGERS V  REDSTARS			OLYMPIC HIGH  V CHALLENGERS		CHEETERS V  TIGERS		TEAMS
1 -   1		4 -  5			0  - 1		0 - 1		SCORE
VOLLYBALL
1ST			2ND			3RD				MATCHES PLAYED
SIMBA  V ZEBRA			SHINNERS V AVENGERS			OLYMPIC HIGH  V CHALLENGERS				TEAM
48 POINTS     16 GOALS			36 POINTS     12 GOALS			117 POINTS   39 GOALS				SCORE
39 POINTS     13 GOALS			9 POINTS        3 GOALS			117 POINTS   39  GOALS

February 2015 Coordinator Report

The month of February has been a very short and exciting month full of activities. The interns who joined us have been great assets to the club in enabling it run its activities. We managed to register the entire club member in different schools and we are looking forward to the next month’s activities.

Entrepreneurship To Launch in Siaya

The entrepreneurship project is to be launched on the 7^th of March in Sigomre. The participants in this workshop are going to be around 50 pupils selected form all the Girl Power Clubs in Siaya site. We expect them to share the information they learn with the other club members and help them in managing their group projects. The survey conducted in January on this shows a positive outlook towards business and entrepreneurship.

During the visit to Sigomre in March, we are also expected to hold a talk in Got Osimbo girls on menstruation and over bleeding. This was a request by the patron of the club in this school, since there are very many cases of girls excessively bleeding during menstruation.  

Girl Power Clubs May Go To Busia!

We are progressing with plans to ensure that the new clubs in Busia are up and running. They have finished their registration and submitted the forms to us. They are ten new clubs in with twenty members each. We plan to visit the site and the schools soon. In this area we are partnering with an organization on the ground called HWAY (Helping Women and Youth). This organization focuses on children girls and youth, on two areas: disease and poverty eradication. Under poverty eradication they do fabric making, table banking, Poultry keeping, farming, and Mary go rounds. Mr. Bernard Wangira is the manager of the organization.

Improvement of Presentations In Sessions

The life skills session coverage is going on well although exams and midterm breaks are really affecting the sessions. The girls are enjoying the session a lot. Role play, group work and games are used to teach the sessions. This has led to a more interactive system of learning and the girls are really enjoying themselves a l

Kibera Girl Power Office Re-Opens For The Year

The Girl Power Club office in Kibera is operation. The Project Assistant and interns are on site every working day. We hope to have girls visit the office for sessions as we progress on.

Use Of Kibera Tennis and Sports Court

Regarding the tennis and sports court in kibera only one school that is Nazarine Primary has given dates that they will use the court. We are waiting for feedback from St. Catherine and Nairobi Day. Olympic primary, Olympic high school and Karen C have playing fields.

February Monthly Girl Power Clubs Sports Day

February ended on a great note with the Girl Power Club sports day.  All schools were invited and but three failed to come; Huruma girls, Karen C high school, Nairobi day. They informed us that they had ongoing exams. The schools that were present include Olympic primary, Olympic high school, St. Catherine and Nazarine primary.  The patrons present were Mr. Orao from Oympic high, Mr. William Ochieng of St. Catherine and Mr. Charles of Nazarine Primary school. Mr. Ben Okoth of St .Catherine came along with the patron from St. Catherine. We played four sports: touch rugby, football, netball and volleyball. These games were refereed by the girls themselves, which was an excellent leadership development.

Joy Akinyi

Project Coordinator

Girl Power Clubs Africa

Entrepreneurship Survey: Siaya Girl Power Clubs

In January 2015, 101 girls from 7 Girl Power Clubs in Sigomre, Siaya County, answered questions in a survey that sought to know their understanding about business and their basic understanding about women's ability to run a business. These girls have been members of the Girl Power Clubs for the last one year, and it was hoped that they could now express themselves without fear or shyness.

This are the results of the survey.

Questions Asked in the survey:

1	Both boys and girls should have equal opportunities to become leaders in their communities .
2	I enjoy play sports, it make me healthy.
3	Business women are well respected.
4	Violence against girls and women is a problem in my community.
5	I would like to have a female mentor/counselor to whom I can turn to for help with a problem.
6	Women can do business alone without men.
7	I know where a health facility in my community is located.
8	I know a woman who runs a business well.
9	I am not able to cope with stress and difficult situations .
10	I live with both of my parents..
11	Having a business is possible for women.
12	I plan to continue with my education.
13	I would be willing to lead a community activity /event.
14	I believe I can run a business in the future.

 

This chart shows that a majority of the students agreed with the statements in the questionnaire

97% agree that both boys and girls should get a chance to be leaders.

92% enjoy sports and it makes them healthy but 3%do not.

62% believe business women are well respected while 17% do not.22% don’t know

55%agree violence against women is a problem in the community, 22% disagree ,the rest do not know.

85% wish to have mentors, 22% don’t , 7% are not sure.

79% agree that women can do business alone while 18%dont and 4% do not know.

8% do not know where health facilities are located, 80% do and the rest don’t understand.

67% know a woman who run a business well. 16%percent don’t know. The rest are not sure

29% of the population are not able to cope with stress while 60% can.

34% of the girls do not live with their parents while 63% do.

80% of the girls believe its possible to own business as women while 8% don't, and 22% do not know.

97% of the girls wish to continue with their education while 2% don’t and 1% are not sure.

90% are willing to lead in community events, 4% don’t and 6% are not sure.

90% believe they can run businesses in the future 7% don’t believe so and 3%are not sure. Conclusion Violence against women should be taught  since a good number seams not acknowledge  its in the community. The number of students not living with their parents is considerable why is this so and is there an underlying problem? Though insignificant, there still are a few girls who do not plan to further their education raises concern. Why is this so? Health facilities are a big resource in the community and their location needs to be known to all. There is a positive out look toward business and most students feel like they are capable of pursuing it now or in the future. There is obviously a strong need for girls to have mentors.