Sport & Recreation - Introduction

In the villages themselves there is often not even an area where sport can be played. An area needs to be designated and marked out for sport. The gap/volunteer programme has shown how enthusiastic the young are to learn new sports e.g. cricket. The people in this area are exceedingly poor and mainly subsistence farmers. The majority of their daily effort is in survival and in providing some funds to buy what they cannot grow e.g. sugar, maintain their mud-walled tin-roofed houses and provide money for education of their children and medical expenses. All effort is focussed on survival and there is little to distract people from this and provide relaxation. IcFEM believes in the whole person - mind, body and spirit. People cannot function efficiently unless all these aspects are nourished and recreation and sport provides a vital escape from daily worries either as a participant or spectator. After watching or participation in sport people often return encouraged with a ‘can-do' attitude to face their on-going problems from a new aspect. Although people undertake large amounts of physical exercise and walk many miles in their daily lives there is still a need to develop and maintain fitness and sport can provide this.

Vision:

Mission:

Goal:

Objectives:

• To encourage local communities to examine how recreation and sport might help their communities and daily lives.
• To encourage the local councillors, government officers, youth workers, etc to see how sports provision might help benefit the community.
• To help communities decide how they might make sport available for participants and spectators.
• To work with teachers and parents to encourage sport at their local schools.
• To provide simple low cost facilities e.g. goal posts made from 2” steel tube, basket ball rings, etc.
• Facilitate the making of sports items locally which reduces the cost, provides employment and brings money to circulate within the community e.g. goal posts, basket ball nets, cricket bats & stumps, hockey sticks.
• To provide information on setting out playing areas for various sports, providing rules for various sports and teaching how various sports are played
• To encourage local coaches and trainers to come to the communities to teach and encourage sports with a view to growing excellence in sport for Kenya.
• To buy items in bulk from Kenyan wholesale suppliers to reduce costs for footballs, etc.
• To set up local competitions between teams.

Strategy:

• The program will be established with three broad programme interventions namely:
• Recreation facility development
• Sports
• Athletics
• Balls
• Indoor games
• Concerts and drama
• Each programme intervention will have a person referred to as facilitator being in charge, identified by the assistant coordinator, to form a committee of five.
• The programme of sports and recreation will be run by the assistant coordinator who shall be the secretary to the committee.
• At the local unit, the programme shall be run by the coordinator who will be responsible for planning and coordinating the programme activities.
• At implementation level, the programme will seek services of volunteers.
• For effectiveness of the programme, training and capacity building will be initiated by targeting all stakeholders including various committees. The facilitators will be determined by the programme leader(s).
• Collaboration and linkages will be enhanced with government line departments (provincial administration, special programme ministry and ministry of youth and sports), churches, politicians and other civil society organisations.

Objectives:

• Establish community self reliance through sports and recreation
• Performance on a variety of games
• Establish linkages with other players
• Establish local transformation unit teams to present them on Kenya Premier League
• Conduct sports evangelism
• Using sports and recreation to address the emerging issues as; drug abuse, child labour, human rights, HIV/AIDS, social evils, etc

Activities:

• Sports and recreation envisioning.
• Local communities' sports resource mobilisation.
• Develop volunteers.
• Organize tournaments and or competitions.
• Establish networking and partnership with other people/organisations.
• Organise trainings, workshops, seminars, and learning interactions in the local units (capacity building).
• Register and maintain up to date register of the coordinator, assistant coordinator and facilitator plus the players of different disciplines.
• Carry out sport evangelism