CKC FC
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Christ the King Community Football Foundation believes that every Young person has the potential to do great things. We believe that through Sports, youth are giving the tools to explore, learn, invent and develop
The mission of our non-profit generating foundation is to help the youth to develop their cognitive and social skills through Sports and education. Using Sports and education as our instrument, the foundation aims to identify and nurture talent in youth from disadvantaged communities and poverty stricken homes; where young people are forced to drop out of schools due to financial constraints and even lack the basic human needs negatively exposing such youth to crime and drug abuse.
Majority of families in Koya Rural Waterloo Western region Sierra Leone have an average number of five children per household and are struggling to survive by doing odd jobs. All the family’s small income is therefore basically for feeding the family (hand -to-mouth) and many of those household cannot afford the cost of education for their children and supporting them up to the level where they can sustain themselves.
As a result, children from these less privileged families attend schools that are highly congested and poorly equipped with no facilities for extracurricular education and development. Yet those very same children are evaluated equally with the rest from better off families who have access to good schools with all necessary facilities and better conditions. The irony of this is that the needy children that are in dire need of scholarships to further their studies, are ones without any possibilities of achieving in order to benefit from it.
The opposite is true, that children from well off families who after attend good schools perform well and are therefore eligible for the higher education at both secondary and tertiary level, unfortunately parent from middle and low level families care very little about the size of their families thereby creating a vicious circle of poor and needy families transmitted from generation to generation.
Through identifying, nurturing and promoting talent, CKC Foundation aims to give a concrete possibility of social and economic empowerment to the adults of tomorrow and to all their families and dependents.
INTRODUCTION
Christ the King community football foundation (CKC FC ) is a dually recognized non-profit generating organization in Sierra Leone with the western area rural district football association ( W.A.R.D.F.A.) Our objective is to improve the living standard of youth in Koya Waterloo, Western rural part of Sierra Leone by identifying and nurturing young people with talent in Sports activities. Since establishment Christ the King foundation has conducted and supported several sporting activities within the region in talent search and capacity building among the youth. We have a number of 35 under 10/12 boys and 20 under 14 boys, 25 under 18 boys and 16 girls as a foundation. Our vision is to operate a modern youth recreation and resources center that will host a modern Community library and an all-round youth sports center that will offer professional Sports training alongside other short term basic education courses on healthy living and drug abuse. ICT application, entrepreneurship skills and Community development programs.
JUSTIFICATION
Most youth are ready to defy some of the challenges prevailing in the world today such as unemployment and economic hardship, which has reduced them to the level of desperation. However, many of them have given up hopes and have buried their talent and now indulge in activities such as drug abuse, early marriages / pregnancies/ prostitution, and crime. It can therefore not be argued that idleness breeds crime and other numerous malpractices that can only lead to the destruction of individuals and their Community. The major economic problem is lack of educational support, the youth population is dominant in the area and there are no jobs to absorb them. As a result, the youth get involved in illegal activities so as to sustain their lives. Common social problems are lack of recreation and entertainment centers, inadequate and unaffordable social facilities etc.
To observe the problems of youth in Koya Rural Waterloo, one just needs to visit any town or market within the region and see the army of youth sitting idle. It is common to see them in very large numbers crowding the street without any engagement. If this youth can be mobilized in an organized manner, they can really bring about great change in their lives and the society at Large.
In November 2017 Christ the King foundation organized a football youth festival in Koya Rural Waterloo Community and the turnout was shocking. A total of 16 under 12 boys teams and 8 under 14 boys teams, 6 female teams across the ward participated, bringing together more than 300 youth who actively participated in the event. A lot of talent was identified during the festival that, if professionally nurtured, can be marketable both nationally and internationally, and the event is done annually to engage youth. Recognizing all this, the partnership and funding from your organization can contribute to the betterment of their own lives and improve the living standard of the entire region.
OBJECTIVE
- To nurture and develop players who can play at the professional level (nationally and internationally) by creating a proper educational program entailing
- Training access 4/5, times a week
- Foundation environment- perception that participant are first students than players
- Regulated social environment- protected from negative influences and peer pressure
- Character building and development- human virtues