KGSA Updates and News
KGSA Soccer
With Kenya's finest soccer coach in Salim Sebit, KGSA is currently competing in 3 tournaments - CARE, the John Packard Family Cup, and the Sports for Social Change Cup. This will be KGSA's 7th year in the CARE tournament, with 6 previous titles under their belt! KGSA has also won the John Packard Family Cup every year since this tournament began. As for the Sports for Social Change Cup, this is the first annual tournament but we expect no obstacles on our route to victory in each of these tournaments. Typically, the team plays in approximately 15 tournaments yearly.
The current record in the interschool league is 8-0 and KGSA has moved into the next pool stage. KGA also has the top scorer, Rose Achieng, with 12 goals.
World Water Day!
On March 15th of 2009, one of our recent board members, Carol-Ann Gleason, traveled with New York-based photographer Danielle St. Laurent to KGSA to initiate the Geo-Girls Citizen Journalism Project, a web-based global bridge linking New York City's Lower East Side Girls Club, their Sister Clubs, and the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy of Kenya, Africa.
Through a two-week workshop, they were able to implement and train the young women of KGSA in photography and writing honed for web-based platforms to be shared among a digitized network of girls associations, clubs, and schools globally. The workshops were integrated into the school's daily curriculum and provided an opportunity for the young women to develop their own projects, which were launched on World Water Day (March 22nd).
With an estimated population of over one million, Kibera is one of the largest slums in the world, and certainly the most well-known. The entrenched poverty of those living inside Kibera slum has greatly diminished any prospects, particularly for girls, to break the cycle of poverty. Families generally do not prioritize the education of their girls. The launch of the Geo Girls Citizen Journalism Project enables the girls of Kibera to bring their voices to the surface while nurturing their abilities and talents through multi-media projects to web-based hubs shared among the Geo-Girl Citizens Journalism Community. top
