For the first time ever, SEP News Letter has been developed. This News letter features events for the month of August, September. SEP will be posting its News letters on quarterly basis. Read more and get back to us with your in puts.

For the first time, SEP 3RD Annual Soccer Tournament and Educational Camp 2011 attracts mass media attention. The information is allover the local Radio stations and also in one of the National daily News Papers, the Standard News Paper, 18th August 2011.

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Society Empowerment Project (SEP) is determined to Female Empowerment through Footbal based l programmes. In collaboration with Kampala 2 cape Town and GTZ/YDF, SEP reaches out to girls child in different aspects. In the month of December 2010, SEP had the most productive training W/shop and soccer events for girls. Read more on this......

SEP through its developmental football programmes is reaching out to youths with the primary goal; development through football. The Tear sheet expounds on the various activities and partners of SEP in the attainment of this goal. Read more....

In the month of August 2011, SEP has organized for its third Annual Soccer Tournament and Educational Camp. This year, the event will focus mainly on two thematic areas; Constitution implementation and Health education.   The  is held every month of August at Kotieno Primary School Grounds, Oyugis. The origin of this event was as a result of needs assessment conducted by SEP members in 2008, and coming up with a conclusion that the Community around Oyugis region has very limited opportunities of access to information, hence SEP approach of reaching out to the community through its thematic football events. Football in this case is used as the platform, a tool of mobilization to gather the communities hence disseminate information, thus its theme “Community Empowerment through Football.” As a result of educational aspect of the event, every year the Organizing Committee for the event sets relevant topic on which the information should be focused, read more....

Society Empowerment Project (SEP) successfully hosted the second edition of its football-based educational event for boys and girls under 20 in Oyugis, Kenya.

The SEP Annual Event and Educational Camp 2010 took place in Oyugis, Rachuonyo District, Kenya, from August 13th to 15th. This year, girls were the focus of the event; through information dissemination and an awareness campaign, SEP aimed to attract more girls from society to its programmes. 

You can read and download the full report here.

Society Empowerment Project, Oyugis, in Western region of Kenya, Nyanza Province, Rachuonyo South district was successfully represented in the Premier Skills Phase II, a course that focused on mentoring other coaches. This opportunity comes to Kenya as collaboration between the Premier league in England and British Council.

The second phase of the course takes place after a competitive evaluation and selection of phase I participants, where in Kenya; there were a total of 48 participants. Of this number, only six qualified to the second level. The Phase II course conducted in Nairobi Kenya, comprised of other countries like Uganda, Malawi, Botswana and Kenya. A total of 24 participants were involved in the training.

Course Purpose:

Premier Skills is an initiative of the British Council and Premier League in England, focusing on Football Coaching. The course emphasizes on the use of Football to develop leadership skills, communication skills s well as “fun” soccer coaching sessions. Premier Skills can be used to train all players in different age categories, ranging from under six years old to senior teams – above 18 years old players.

The training attracted different sports based organizations within the Province, with some participants coming as far as Kisumu. It comprised of homogeneous age limits for both boys and girls. The age was set such that any body undergoing the workshop would have the ability to replicate the skills back in her/his community, through their respective organizations. The age limit was therefore set t be above 16 in age, for all participants. (These were trained as coaches, so they could also train more people in their community, and also help in training sessions in their various organizations / football clubs).

The Evaluation Report explains exactly what SEP was able to do in the last one year of its project implementation, and the direct impact the programmes had on the community. It reflects the true picture of SEP involvement in Community Development throgh Football.

Monitoring and Evaluation are management tools but are different in nature and happen at different stages in the project  cycle. A monitoring system can be defined as an observation system for the project to verify whether the project activities are happening according to planning and whether means are used in a correct and efficient manner.

Monitoring is a continuous data collection analysis process which is implemented to asses a project and compare it with the expected performance.

Evaluation tries to describe the changes in life and well being of the final users.In best case, one tries to compare the situation ex-ante and ex-post and analyzes the positive or / negative evolutions.

The M&E guide attached herein will help SEP estimate the impact of its programmes on the community after a period of one year, 2009.

SEP in the use of football for development has included girl child in all its activities, beyond football. The girls also are actively involved in Agricultural activities, both horticulture and Livestock. They also take on active roles of finding correct measurement for hole drilling for bananas plantation.

Girls have the potential, and through Football, SEP is determined to develop these potentials into full use. This in the long run will directly help the girls and wider community to find a sustainable way for food security, as well as source of income, thus poverty alleviation.

SEP has successfully introduced Girls' Soccer Team in the region, Oyugis. We in SEP take pride in the fact that this is the only girls' soccer team with focus and reliability in the entire region, actually Rachuonyo District!

The significant of this team to the wider community is the use of Football for gender equality and Equity. SEP offers an equal opportunity to girl child in all its programmes.

This undertaking has since changed the perception of the community of associating football with boys, when and girls are only seen as domestic source of "cheap" labour! Every one today understands that girls too have talents in foot ball that needs to be developed.

The partnership of SEP and the Streetfootballworld is a driving force towards this achievement, not forgetting that unfailing encouragement from our Kenya Partner, MYSA. (MYSA provides a practical encouragement, a situation where girls, dribble, head and score with high discipline in the field). We as part of the Football For Hope are determined to uphold this spirit.