Kenyan Goals: Youth Leadership, Sport & Health

Sport has always been more useful in Dago when it opens a door to something larger. Kenyan Goals brings together youth engagement, health education, mentoring, teamwork, and community connection within Friends of Dago’s Youth Leadership, Sports & Health pathway.

More than a sports event

The program grew from the idea that young people need spaces where they can gather, compete, learn, build confidence, and connect with information and services that matter to their wellbeing. Historical records show the Medical & Sports Camp growing substantially over time. For the historical Kenyan Goals program, Friends of Dago leadership confirms 52 sports-team entries, 192+ team representatives involved in leadership, health, and first-aid activities, and community/event reach of 8,000 people across 14 communities. These historical figures do not constitute a confirmed 2027 event target.

Across the wider pathway, Friends of Dago connects sports with youth leadership, HIV/AIDS prevention and health education, first aid, peer mentorship, and positive community participation.

Youth are participants and leaders

The larger purpose is not to frame young people only as beneficiaries. Youth have knowledge, energy, relationships, and leadership capacity that can strengthen the community itself. Sport can provide an accessible platform for practicing teamwork, responsibility, communication, and service.

Evidence should remain connected to context

Friends of Dago is strengthening how program evidence is documented and published. Rather than presenting one large participation number without explanation, the organization is separating annual reach, cumulative results, and point-in-time program snapshots so partners can understand what each figure actually means.

That same standard applies to Kenyan Goals: participation matters, but so do the quality of engagement, the health and leadership learning around the event, and the relationships that continue after it.

Four free sports, safety and coordination activities

Paper-first, fictional practice. These variants of the approved S1–S3 and J1 facilitator materials do not enroll teams, authorize a 2027 event, reserve a venue, approve child-facing contact or promise clinical services. Do not enter children’s names, real incident accounts, photographs, contact information or medical records.

S1 · Fair play, consent and inclusion

Try it: Four imaginary teams plan a friendly game; one person requests an accessible option and another declines photographs. Write three fair-play rules about respect, inclusion and consent.

Example response · S1

Follow agreed rules and speak respectfully; ask about participation needs and offer suitable options; do not take or publish an image without appropriate consent. A sample rule is not a signed safeguarding or host agreement.

S2 · Fixture counting without double-counting people

Try it: Teams A–D play a fictional single-elimination bracket: A versus B, C versus D, then the final. How many games? Explain why a person entered in two sports creates two sport entries but remains one unique person.

Example response · S2

There are three games without a third-place match. Team entries, sport entries, unique players, health encounters and community reach are distinct measures. The approved historical Kenyan Goals figures—52 team entries, 192+ representatives, 8,000 community/event reach and 14 communities—are not automatic 2027 targets.

S3 · Pause a fictional unsafe activity

Try it: A mock playing field has a loose object at its edge. Write a nonclinical role chain: pause the activity; keep people away; contact accepted local sports/venue and safeguarding leads; restart only after responsible host clearance. What if no one has accepted those roles?

Example response · S3

Keep the mock activity paused until the responsible local people can assess and document safe resumption. If a safe venue or accepted lead is missing, do not proceed. This tabletop activity is not a medical triage or emergency-response protocol.

J1 · Separate sports registration from clinical care

Try it: An imaginary sports desk records five team entries and eight fictional unique players. Someone asks whether a medical test is available; no provider has accepted any clinical role. Draw separate sports and provider-controlled-care boxes and write an accurate response.

Example response · J1

Keep the example team-entry count separate from the unique-person count; do not collect symptoms, diagnoses, HIV status or treatment requests at the sports desk. Say that no clinical service has been confirmed. Only a separately accepted qualified provider can control any future clinical scope, consent, secure records, referrals and follow-up.

Learning is not delivery: Printing these cards does not count as a held session. For actual locally delivered S1–S3/J1 practice, record the real date and safe aggregate evidence in the existing Stage 5 Session Evidence register. See the two nonclinical health-navigation exercises.

Read the Kenyan Goals Medical & Sports Camp page or explore the broader Youth Leadership, Sports & Health pathway.