The Kenya Soccer Project: June 2012

Sunday, June 17, 2012

We're Packed up and Kenya Bound!

Well, Lexi is at least. I am staying home and my Kenya escapade will be postponed until 2013. We got together on Friday and after lots of analyzing, improvising, weighing, tying, lacing and taping we packed 37 pounds of soccer balls, cleats and a ball pump to bring to our players in Nehemiah! Here are some pictures!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Update!

A HUGE 'thank you' from Madi and Lexi!

Kickoff!

Hello faithful Kenya Soccer Project/Nehemiah FC followers!
It has been way too long since our last post on here, but I can assure you some amazing things have been happening behind the scenes! I apologize for the loose composition of this post, but I want to make sure that our faithful following is kept up to date.

About Lexi

Lexi is by far the key connection for this project. She was the one to bring the idea of a soccer club/team/league to Madi thanks to a heads up from a friend who was visiting the village at the time. Lexi's enthusiasm and energy have already helped the project grow from just an idea to a plan of action and she has been pivotal in initiating contact across the Atlantic. Lexi will be lending her knowledge and experience of the Kenyan people and their culture to the project. She lived in the area that the project will be focusing on and is planning to make a trip there this summer. Her thorough information gathering skills, people skills and all around lovely attitude and positive energy will help nurture this program and help it grow into a self-sustaining and successful project that will bring pride to the people involved.

About Madi

Madi will be the "soccer side" of the project. She has been involved in soccer since she was eight years old, watching, playing, and coaching her own team by the time she was 16. She is now an avid player and coach who is pursuing her interests in coaching and sharing the beautiful game with people all over the world. Her hope for the Kenyan Soccer Project is that the club becomes the pride of the community, giving children and youth an education that can be worked into a soccer-related curriculum, educating coaches and ultimately creating players who are able to compete with some of the soccer talents in the rest of the country. She will use her knowledge of player and club development, coaching and her love of people and soccer to help the program grow.