FREE SPORTING ACTIVITIES : DESPITE THE FLOODS, SADILI OVAL IS OPEN

 WE HAVE PUT IN THE WORK, SADILI IS OPEN!

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A Letter To The Sports Enthusiasts.

The heavy rains experienced currently have become a menace to the livelihood of every Kenyan. Most parts of the country experienced floods that came with the loss of property and sadly loss of lives. As a result, normalcy was disrupted and everyone in the country including the government had to reset to cope with the new state of affairs.

However, amidst the floods, Sadili is very much open and welcoming to everyone, especially Sports enthusiasts. We are very grateful that the floods were contained and most of our surfaces remained usable in this period although the normal programming of activities has been affected. Our weekly timetable of activities designed for club members has been greatly disrupted. This is due to the difficulties our members faced caused by the current floods.

But, with great joy, we wish to inform all tennis players and lovers that our tennis courts are drained and in good and playable condition. 

As the last drop of the rain fell yesterday, matches go on our hard courts. This goes for our basketball court, which is dry, and waiting for basketball lovers to come to it.

The Sadili gym is open for membership subscriptions to the public. Our gym is fully equipped, spacious, and with a comfortable wooden aerobics floor. The trainers are available and offer a wide range of activities like dance aerobics, strength training, weight loss exercises, yoga, boxing, body-building, and personal training.

Sadili swimming pool is always open to the public. Non-members are also welcome to pay daily rates while members swim for free. As shown in the attached photo the pool is the cleanest you can find around.

Yes, there have been heavy rains, and livelihoods have been disrupted but let us all not forget the importance of healthy living. Sadili Oval Club sporting facilities are here to help you achieve the healthy life that your body deserves. Welcome all!

Contact us through these details and we will respond swiftly

and immediately for a seamless experience.

WHY KIDS LIKE SPENDING THEIR HOLIDAYS AT SADILI OVAL SPORTS ACADEMY. DISCOVER THE SECRET BEHIND IT!

APRIL HOLIDAY CAMP JUST ENDED, WHAT NEXT?

SAFARI JUNIOR --August

 

Are you Looking for a sporting Hub?

Come to Sadili Oval Sports Academy in Langata where the scarce sporting ecosystem brings comfort, nurtures dreams, and builds skills. Sadili Oval hosts camps for kids from 12 to 17 years of age and engages them in tennis, basketball, soccer, and swimming activities. This keeps the teenagers occupied with productive activities that help them develop new skills. 

It is apt to say therefore that if you don't want your kids roaming around the neighborhood absorbing bad habits, wasting their brains, and probably engaging in drugs, give Sadili Oval a call. 

Holiday Camps

Our camps come up mostly during the April, August, and December holidays. During these times, kids are drilled in the aforementioned sports disciplines that help them learn while having maximum fun. The camps are also meant to help the kids do extracurricular activities other than bookwork and also ensure they do not engage in activities that may risk their well-being e.g. drug and substance abuse.

In April 2024, Sadili Oval Sports Academy hosted a kid's holiday camp from the 8th to the 26th. Participants were allowed to engage in all the sports listed above according to the weekly timetable provided. The camp ran during the week days with the morning session starting from 9am to 12 noon while the afternoon session started from 2pm to 5pm. The trainings were conducted with the club's selected coaches and trainers under the guidance of the club's Director and sports enthusiast, Dr. Elizabeth Odera.

As can be seen from the photos, the camp gives an all-round sporting experience to the kids while at the same time allowing them to enjoy themselves and have fun.

TESTIMONIALS

According to Mwangi, one of the parents who enrolled his kid,

“ The camp is a good idea since where we live is so congested with people and kids do not get enough spaces to play in. Additionally, the coaches here are wonderful people with just the right skill sets to conduct such activities. Also, we as parents are most of the time away doing other things so bringing the kids here knowing that it is a safe space gives me peace of mind.”

 

Also, take but the words of a participant amongst others, Machel, who said

“I have been coming to Sadili as a member even during the school days but the camp is whole different experience. The number of kids who attend the camp is slightly higher than those who are enrolled as members and that makes the activities more fun. Also,the activities are spread across the week so one can come any day anytime.I have made new friends which is a good thing”

 

 

WHAT'S NEXT?

Let your kid attend the next camp.

The next camp is in AUGUST 2024. I will be titled SAFARI JUNIOR which will be bigger and better because it will bring kids across the East African Countries.

We would like to welcome you all to this events-filled experience as we look forward to hosting a bigger team with many more activities and fun.

You can contact us below or write Dr. Eliz here --> elizabeth.odera@sadili.com

ANOTHER DANGEROUS FLOOD STORMS KENYA CLAIMING HUNDREDS OF LIVES AND DESTROYING PROPERTIES (2024)

 THE KENYAN FLOODS AND IMPACT EVEN ON EDUCATION

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A Natural disaster has broken its way into the daily lives of Kenyans again. Many parts of Kenya have been experiencing heavy rains since the 18th  of April 2024. 

As one can see in the images, the heavy rain has led to floods leaving many people in distress following the ruins it has caused. The capital city, Nairobi and its surroundings, have been severely affected by this merciless flood. Low-income areas in Nairobi like Kibera, Mathare, Githurai, and Mukuru kwa Njenga have been severely affected due to lack of solid structures, poor drainage systems and infrastructures, and congestions. This leaves people homeless and at risk of contracting diseases like cholera, typhoid and diarrhea.

 

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Additionally, the Nairobi River and Athi River both broke out of their banks sweeping away houses along their paths and damaging nearby neighborhoods leaving about 40,000 people displaced and homeless.

A total number of 17 bridges have been destroyed, making it hard for people to cross from one side to another. In Mai Mahiu, about 60 kilometers from Nairobi about 50 people died after being swept away by the heavy rains as they slept at a dam nearby. Generally, across the whole country, over 180 people have been reported dead. 

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In the North Eastern part of Kenya where the main source of income is the keeping of livestock, the residents have lost their source of livelihood watching their cattle swept away by the oceanic rains.

The families in this part of the country also face displacement. While some of them camp along the Garissa-Nairobi highway, some people have camped at a nearby school, Jaribu Primary School to seek refuge.

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Farmers across the country lament their losses as they watch their crops flowing with the waters. They report that this comes after they have heavily invested their resources in buying seeds and fertilizers. Just when the crops were looking healthy, and they hoped for a better harvest. This is like a nightmare in their eyes.

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Due to the continuous rainfalls, the Cabinet Secretary for Education issued a statement that schools that were to re-open for the second term on 29th April 2024, now re-opens by the 6th of May 2024 hoping that the rains would have reduced. Some schools have been destroyed and brought to ruins. Even after the 6th of May, schools in some parts of the country like Busia County will not be able to open because the classrooms are left in bad conditions.

The government has made the public to understand that they are looking for ways to help the affected families and schools for life to return to normalcy.

Here's Why Sadili Believes That Mentoring A Boy Child Is The Key To Future Success

Since ancient times, male children have benefitted from a society that provided mentorship and direction. Most communities had rites of passage that taught boys the values of strength, chastity and cultivated ideals. But this is slowly changing as the rigors of modern life catch up with society.

Kenya has been affected by Globalisation, with many citizens trying to cope with and the fast pace in which the world is running, with parents working longer hours, often away from the home for days, sometimes months. This leaves the boy child in Kenya without clear avenues for survival, build critical life skills and growth.

Kenyan Boys have found themselves struggling to fit into leadership roles in their community, because of lack of enough mentors and role modelsK.

Boys are now giving into drug abuse, immorality and crime at the expense of education, sports and the arts. I have experienced the dire impacts of the forgotten boy child in our offices, schools and social gatherings. Absentee fathers torn away by the ever demanding co-operate world, alcohol and drug abuse sometimes exacerbates the situation.

The result is a weak, unguided, depressed, insecure and lonely man, often associated with vices such as drug and substance abuse, sexual abuse and school drop outs. The real impact is felt in the broken marriages, single parent homes, struggling corporates, poor priesthood vocation uptake, poverty, unemployment and dependency with ripple effects on the economic and political scenes. 

The remedy is invest in initiatives like Sadili's Ushindi Boys Club which transform the boy into a responsible man. Ushindi Boys Club is a rites of passage for boys aged between 11 and 17 years (Std 6 - Form 2) are expected to become leaders after 2 years, following the book "Sports for Life" (Amazon) by Dr. Liz Odera. Sports is used as an important medium to mentor the boys, and the program seeks to engage male mentors to volunteer. 

If you wish to be a mentor, please contact: askus@sadili.com, and let us know more about you.

You will be sent details on the next steps.

Sadili Oval Club Reopens Membership And Facilities on 1st Aug2023

Sadili Oval Club opens it's doors again to full action on 1st August 2023! 

We are excited that, following the COVID-19 toll and aftermath in Kenya, we are really pleased to get Sadili back in action, 

We welcome Dr. Liz Odera, who is back in the country, leading the process.

SPECIAL OFFER: first 150 members! 

Adult - Kes. 6500 per month - Gym and all sports facilities (special training sessions are extra).

Child - Kes. 4300 per month - two organised sport as per timetable (special sessions are extra).

CONTACT RECEPTION: 0746964461; reception@sadili.com   

Successful Completion of the Court Of Dreams project

Since the inception of the Court Of Dreams project in the year 2016 a lot has been covered especially in the areas of WASH, Health and Education in the different schools that Court Of Dreams was introduced to, with sports juicing up all the life skills sessions that were carried out.

The project targeted young children between the age of 4 and 10 years that is children from Nursery to class 3 who are mostly neglected when it comes to going to school, issues related to WASH and are prone to diseases which are caused due to the nature of games and environment that they play in. It has been an amazing time working with the little ones getting to learn from them as they also learn from us during the life skills and sports sessions which they actively engaged in.

The support has been great from the different schools that we have worked with, which most of them are from Kibera and a few from Lang'ata. The directors, teachers, parents and pupils played an active role in the successful carrying out of the Court Of Dreams project to its completion. From the different sessions carried out at schools to training's that parents and teachers were coming in to participate at Sadili Oval Sports Academy ,to ensure that the lessons taught do not become extinct.

As they say everything that has a beginning has an end, it has been awesome working with everyone who supported the Court Of Dreams. Our greatest appreciation goes to the Comic relief and United Purpose for funding our project from the start to the end ,Dr Elizabeth Odera who ensured that the project ran smoothly, all our partners for the continuous support ,all well wishers and friends of Sadili for their generous donations and support, the schools that we have worked with that is all the teachers and pupils without them the implementation of the project wouldn’t have been successful and the Sadili Oval Staff members for working relentlessly to ensure that the Court Of Dreams project objectives are achieved

Teachers Training

Despite the gloomy weather caused by the rains the previous night, the teachers still showed up on the 19th of October for their planned 3 hour training session at Sadili Oval Sports Academy. Teachers from some of the schools that we have worked with in the Court of Dreams project from year 1 to year 3 came for the training .The schools that were present include:Nazarene,Becky school,St Catherine,St Stephen,Jitahidi,Nazarene and Kimmta.

The event started with warm up activities, which were participated in by both the teachers and the facilitators. The warm up involved a singing game that also played the role of introduction of the participants. This was, “Fire in the Jungle, run! Run! Run!” whereby the participants would run round in a circle, and would stop momentarily while a participant said his/her name, and sang the words repeatedly, and after stopping the next person would do the same. This was repeated until all the participants had introduced themselves. 

The main session later started which was facilitated by Joy Akim who is the project manager and Brighton Amuni the Monitoring and Evaluation officer.The teachers were taken through Play based learning which was the main topic of the day which comprised of Importance of play based learning,participants and their responsibilities,where play based learning can take place,structure of a gaming session and development of a game.

Participant centered method was mostly used during the training where by the teachers got to effectively participate.They were divided into groups and given a chance to come up with different games around numeracy and literacy which they later presented and demonstrated how best they would deliver the lessons to children.Later lunch was served, all the teachers enjoyed and later

left with knowledge on how best to implement play based learning in school even with the new curriculum.

8 series challenge 6

The tournament started at 3.00 pm and ended at 4:30 pm with most of the children coming from Kibera. The tournament was held at our court in Kibera for the young ones mostly under the age of 6  and 8
The children were organized in different a category that is under 6 years, 8 years, 10 years and 12 years. The under 6 and under 8 tournament was held at the Kibera tennis court and the under 10 and under 12 was held at Sadili Oval sports Academy  

                                  

The children were registered, given uniforms and later went to their different pools and the competitions started this being the 6^th 8 series challenge the children showed remarkable results as most of them had improved from the previous results. The game was intense as each player didn't want to lose the ball you could actually follow with yours eyes to see where the ball falls next and the tension in the children as they didn’t want to loose.

 

''There is a lot of improvement from the children who constantly come for practice during Saturday squad sessions, the evening sessions and the holiday camp. This being a continuing group that was started in January ,am glad as most of the children understand the basics of tennis and are consistent in their training session observing discipline so that they can excel. I would also like to thank Dr Elizabeth Odera our director for providing sports uniforms for our children the uniformity was amazing. My objective is to get my team to play tournaments outside Sadili and also participate in major championships "said coach Asha Adongo during a short interview.

Running Court of Dreams.

Children being taught about WASH.

When carrying out sessions you might think that the children are just doing it for fun or not getting it until they shock you by telling  you what you taught them a few weeks ago .Its then that it will hit you that you positively impacted the children which is the goal from the word go.

All trough from year one since the initiating of the Court of dreams program we have been able to interact with different children from different schools

comprising those leaving with disabilities, most of them coming from the large slum of Kibera. Teaching them WASH and Comprising it with sports has been the most amazing thing we ever did as the children did not only learn but they learnt and had fun at the same time making the lessons memorable.

The first group that we started with are all grown now in class 5 and by the time we were starting with them they were in class 3.Some of them during the tennis sessions at the Kibera tennis court they would come and help coach Asha Adongo run the sessions. The teachers have also been very supportive during our sessions helping us manage the children and also keeping us up to date with the new curriculum when we are running our sessions.

Parents during the meeting.

The community at large inclusive of the parents has also been very helpful in taking part in our activities that is the cleanups, home visits, training’s, taking care of our community court and policy making. Running our project has been smooth .Despite the small hitches here and there, the good work of promoting WASH, numeracy and literacy will continue.

The August Holiday Camp

A session on how to hold the racket

The holiday camp was carried out from the 20th  of August to the 31st at the Kibera tennis court.Most of our participants being children under the age of 10 years.Being the holiday season the turn up was great as most of the children were not going to school thus attending the August holiday camp.
Life skills sessions and sports sessions were the main activities being carried out during the holiday camp.Under life skills,the emphasis was on WASH activities and some of the sessions carried out in the two weeks camp included ;Hand washing(Steps of hand washing,When to wash hands and the importance of washing hands),Keeping the environment clean,Brushing teeth and Cholera.
In sports tennis was the main game being played and most of the players being new faces the coach had to start with the basics of tennis that is;How to hold the racket,How to swing backhand and forehand,How to hit and roll the ball.She was however impressed as most of the children were fast learners and were picking up the skills really fast,with the help of the older squad kids she was able to run her sessions with the large number of young ones who showed up.

Learning how to roll

Immediately the children saw coach Adongo carrying porridge and heading down to Kibera tennis court they  would immediately swarm up the place ready for the sessions with their cups and plates for porridge and sweet potatoes or 'KDF' which was being served after every session. ''I am really grateful for the holiday camp as it has really helped my children as she refers to them,some have even come and confessed how they used to use the same basin to wash their utensils and again shower with it but now they have a separate basin for doing dishes and showering which is a good thing .For my old players,their tennis skills have greatly improved and for the new players they have gained some skills and with consistency in training they will be as good as the others.Am also happy about the food that was being offered at the end of the session as it tremendously contributed to the huge turnout of children thus being able to teach life skills and tennis to many children",said Coach Adongo during a short interview with her.

Brushing teeth being demonstrated by one of the children

Time for Porridge