Sport4Change

Our Mission Statement

SACRENA is a sporting organization. Using sports as a tool and means of advocacy of disseminating messages on health, education and life skills to youths and Kisumu’s 4 slums communities. SACRENA exits to live in breaking the silence, empowerment, care programmes, self-help events, renewing values, responsibility, visibility, identifying resources and championing passion to address common human problems at the villages of Lake Victoria’s Kisumu City Region.

SACREN networks with sporting foundations, well-wishers colleagues, playing friends, sporting organizations, NGOs, and faith based organizations that want to work with her to help and support her initiatives. SACRENA also champions the sporting activities within communities and conducting clean ups and collecting garbage at the slums.

SACRENA welcome supports, partnership, encouragements and motivations from colleagues to let her carry on and make the Great Lake Victoria region a better place for sporting as a tool to address the social common problems. SACRENA is not discriminative; we support and do sports without judgments, gender and faith sensitive. We respect one's culture and background.

Motivators, volunteers and researches are encouraged to be part and parcel of SACRENA.

Executive Summary

SACRENA sporting activities mobilizes resources to support Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) in education, medication, food, clothing and shelter. SACRENA also is continually kicking out HIV/AIDS and orphans related stigma, shame, fear, discrimination, ignorance, misaction and inaction attached to people infected or affected with/by HIV/AIDS, physical components and teaming therapy.

Through sports SACRENA advocates to end some traditional cultural issues that have fuelled HIV infections like cultural believes of removal of 12 teeth, cutting your skin to remove diseases, inheritance, and abuse of women and children. The killing of HIV positive children saying they are a curse within the community needs to end only through sports.

Achievements

• SACRENA have been able to Host all the Civil Society Organizations along Great Lake Victoria in 3-day exhibition with the massages to support the challenged within our communities through sports.
• SACRENA have been recently given opportunity do online fundraising at the global giving web.
• SACRENA have been overall first organization that other organizations are learning from in Kisumu. Rated by the Government of Kenya and the District Commissioner of Sports and Culture Directorate

Programmes

• Advocacy
• Counselling Services
• Trainings
• Income Generating Activities
• Sports
• Trainings
• Networking/Partnerships
• Referrals
• Outreaches.