Sports4SDGs
GYF provides an inclusive global sporting platform to enable collaborations between likeminded higher learning institutions, organisations, companies, communities and individuals; using the 17 sports to develop and advocate for a project to address each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Using each of the sports as a tool to mobilize resources to implement the project.
The initiative ensures every sport has the opportunity of being included and that anyone passionate about any sport and a particular SDG can contribute towards the UN Sustainable Development agenda.
Utilising the Moulding4Work students and their Passion Project and the Football Teams, GYF host annual SDGs Impact League where teams compete and the top two get selected for support and funding.
Football4Peace
This is specifically to address the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Peace Justice and Strong Institutions). Football4Peace involves Inter - County Football For The Goals Championship an annual tournament comprising of 34 teams (10 players per team of both gender) drawn from higher learning institutions and local communities in Kenya and around the globe.
The tournament is hosted during the World Football Week, with a Sports4SDGs Forum hosted in April during the ‘International Day of Sports For Peace and Development’ each year.
Each team taking part in the tournament undertakes an Team Selection challenge before the tournament. Through the tournament GYF mobilizes 17 companies, organisations, or individuals to sponsor the teams from marginalised communities.
To emerge the tournament champion, a team not only have to score goals on the field of play but also demonstrate and show they are contributing towards the delivery of the sustainable solutions to community challenges ie plating fruit trees under the Trees4Food Challenge. During the tournament, the teams gain entrepreneurship skills, recources mobilation strategies, learn abouit their civic duties and peaceful conflict resolutions within their communities.
The tournament will unite 94 football teams from 47 Counties in Kenya and the globe by 2028. Click Here to enter a team for the Inter - County Football for the Goals Championship 2027.
Archery4TheGoals
Utilising archery as an individual sport, Archery4TheGoals utilizes all year-round Archery activities and sessions to provide practical life skills (Confidence, Patience, Discipline) to the young people across the learning institutions in Kenya. The programme enbales the young people to build their confidence, patience, discipline, ability to work in a team and ask for help.
Inter – School Archery Championship
GYF is working to establish 47 Archery Clubs across Kenya (One Archery Academy per County), this initiative will mobilize Archery Clubs in each County to participate in the annual Inter School Archery Championship.
To emerge a tournament champion, a team not only has to score points on the archery range but also demonstrate and show their ability to collaborate in others towards addressing issues affecting their peers both in school and at the community level.
By establishing 47 Archery Clubs across Kenya, GYF will ensure that Moulding4Work graduates, Members and Volunteers have a path through which to builf their life skills and enter the job market. Those in Mombasa Kenya and keen to start Archery Clubs in their schools can email
