Volunteer Football coaching in Kenya.

Musa Otieno who is a football player started Musa Otieno Foundation and plays for the Kenya National team Harambee Stars, where he is the captain. He is also a professional player and plays for the South African team ‘Santos’ he doubles in as the team captain for the same team.
The Foundation is an organisation of both professional football players and prominent football players who plays in the Kenya national team the ‘Harambee Stars’, who work in the organisation as coaches to train talented young players who are underprivileged and comes from poverty stricken homes in Kenya.
All the players in the Musa Otieno foundation are under 16 years of age and most attend public high schools while others, since they come from single parents families, or from very poor region’s cant afford to attend high school.
The foundation’s aims is to give a positive influence to the players providing the required resources in training to help them be responsible adults, keep them off the streets, drugs, crime and irresponsible behaviour. The foundation also seeks to give Spiritual and Religiously motivated guidance to the young players to nurture moral values, personal integrity and good values.
The foundation serves as a platform to give them exposure, recognition, and training for the furtherance of their prospective careers in football
The Foundation has a programme for the three teams that starts every Saturday. The Foundation operates with a tight schedule, which sometimes runs to late Sunday afternoons when there are matches. During the training sessions, at least 3 coaches have to be available. More coaches could be available dependable with the season.
The programme starts at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday. There is a warming up and preparation session to give time to players who may have to travel from far. This session ends at 9.30 a.m. when the official training sessions starts with a pastoral education which runs to 10 a.m.
After 10AM, there’s regrouping into respective teams for commencement of physical and applied skills in football, which goes on till midday. There may be breaks in between the sessions that may take between 15 to 30 minutes.
After noon, there follows a session of elaborate more formal and written synopsis of the physical and training sessions. This is analysed and taken into consideration.
There follows another session, which takes the players to SOS (save our soils/ save our schools) School villages, children home for similar motivated training programme.

The foundation foremost aspiration is to:
• Give the players an exposure for which to advance their careers in football.
• Help them grow into responsible adults who can be pillars of the society.
• Keep the otherwise idle players away from drugs, crime and the streets.
• Give a spiritual guidance to promote good morals.
• Give a positive motivational influence .

The team welcomes volunteers who may be willing to work with the foundation to uplift the standards of football in the country.  There is no specification of the attachment period that kept in regulation with the foundation. If you can teach and play football, and have a passion for helping out in a developing country, this could be for you. English is widely spoken, so communication is not a problem for training. Volunteers get lots of spare time to interact, coach and encourage these boys to give them confidence for the future.

This placement is suitable for people from all walks and types of life – with an interest in a fellow human beings’ plights and sufferings. If you want to do something a little different, don't mind the heat, want to spend time teaching young boys about the beautiful game, this can be a very rewarding project.

Many who have visited East African cities, have an impression that, “Nairobi is East Africa’s hub of fun”. The city is awash with standard fun bobbling joints for the young and the old alike. Nairobi is the only city in the world where one can go for a game drive in the wild, thus, weekends out to the Nairobi National Park could be in order.
There is also the Nairobi Safari Walk, Animal orphanage, a giraffe and an elephant sanctuary, where one could get to kiss a giraffe lip to lip. For a cultural night out a visit to the Bomas of Kenya, will leave you thrilled and educated about various Kenyan traditional cultures, music and history. One could also climb Mount Longonot, two hours drive from the city, for skilled climbers, Inspire Kenya will be more than glad to organise the volunteers a climb up Africa’s second highest point – Mount Kenya. The mountain’s icy peaks of Batian (5199m) and Nelion (5,189m) are accessible only to experienced mountaineers,
Kenyans are uniquely hospitable people, intelligent and out going. A chat with them over a  drink after a hard day’s work could be equally as fun.

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