Kampala Junior Team Profile

KAMPALA JUNIOR TEAM PROFILE:

Back Ground

Kampala Junior Team (KJT) is a registered community based Organization for disadvantaged children, situated in Kisenyi II parish, Kampala central division. It is registered with Uganda Youth Football Association (UYFA) under Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) to develop youth football from the grass root in Uganda.

It was formed in 2003 to identify and develop talent among kids aged 5 to 18 years that come from disadvantaged backgrounds. We started with eight (8) children and currently we have signed up Four Hundred (400) children both boys and girls who comes from all parts of Uganda, 300 of whom are Orphans/street kids while 100 have both parents. We organize them into sports and other activities to avoid crime, AIDS/HIV and to promote their education. We have been successful in assimilating the kids into society in a positive behavior.

VISION

“To help the disadvantaged talented children in sports to be good future citizens that can benefit the country”

Honestly, we witnessed a big number of disadvantaged kids [street kids, orphans and kids from poor families].After that we discovered that no one could come up and help these kids yet they had different talents which can gather them together and enjoy life. So we decided to come up with a vision of forming Kampala Junior Team [KJT] to build and develop their talents through sports activities.

MISSION

To change these kids from a distressed [sad] life to a joyful life through training them different sports activities.

Statement of Need

KJT is one of Uganda’s pioneer partners for the development of youth through sports activities, identification and promoting youth skills. In 2003, we recognized that the general decline in standards of sports in Uganda was as a result of the absence of youth skills development program to sustain sports as well as the lack of adequate professional assistance.

KJT realized then that it could begin at the grassroots of sports development with the 5-18 year age group category. The Academy has a number of games and sports disciplines (Football, Swimming, Basketball , Volleyball, Acrobatics, Art and Craft and Music and drama) has been able to recruit and train exceptional talents in the various disciplines especially in the area of football development

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

KJT is primarily and strategically guided by three major motives:

1)  Commercial Sports Business:

·  Talent promotion: To generate revenue by identifying, grooming, selling or buying football talent, skills and expertise.

·  Commercial Advertising: To generate revenue for the club through sell of advertising space on Club materials and events.

2)  Social responsibility:

As a social responsibility cause to society, KJT aims at

·  Helping disadvantaged and needy children through sports

·  To remove children from street and transform them into productive citizens.

·  Reduction of drugs addicts

·  To pay an active role in promotion of youth and women empowerment, economically, socially and politically.

·  To create public awareness of their human rights and civic responsibilities through seminars, workshops conferences and publications.

·  To carryout public health awareness

·  Do all such other things that are incidental of conductive to the attainment of the foregoing objectives of any of them.

·  To keep the children busy during holiday in order to avoid children to learn bad manners and being in the bad group when they are not with their parents.

·  Creating Mutual Understanding between all the youth academies in Uganda through forming up soccer leagues and competitions.

3)  Promote educational standard among disadvantage children.

·  Offer school bursaries to them through contacting the respective schools

·  Work hand in had with parents and schools, to facilitate children to learn

·  To facilitate orphans, street kids and children from poor families to get sponsors for their studies.

·  Provide and equip youth with knowledge in computer skills

ACTIVITIES

We organized them into football and other activities to avoid crime, AIDS/HIV, and to promote their education. We have been successful in integrating them cultural into society.

·  Recruitment and training of kids with talents in sports and other careers.

·  Organizing and Participation in national, regional and international Tournaments and leagues.

·  Counseling

·  HIV/ AIDs Counseling

·  computer training

·  Music dance and drama

·  Acrobatics

·  Art & Crafts

ACHIEVENMENTS:

1)  Commercial Sports business:

Promotion of talent:

Since 2003 KJT has managed to nature football players who participated in 2nd division and qualified for 1st Division of Kampala Central Division organised by FUFA.

KJT has managed to promote footballers into other soccer clubs in Uganda both in 2nd and first Division for example:

1.  Kalinzi Farouk Ndieffi - Nsejjere Hollodings Football Club [on loan]

2.  Tumusime Ronnie - Nsejjere Hollodings Football Club [on loan]

3.  Kawunki Ronald - Kampala United FC [on Loan]

4.  Kato Fred - Kampala United FC [on Loan]

5.  Musoke Hassan - Kampala United FC [on Loan]

Tournaments and league Awards:

As part of its efforts to promote talent KJT achieved tremendous success in the following football tournaments:

·  2004- KJT participated in Nyamilambo Cup in Rwanda and won two trophies for under 12 and 14 years old categories.

·  2005- KJT participated in Uganda holiday youth camp and won two trophies the under 13 and under 15 Categories.

·  2005- Crespo Cup International organised by UJL [Uganda Junior League] KJT won U7 & U9 categories.

·  2006 we were invited to participate in Ligi Ndogo Nairobi International Cup -Where we won two trophies for under 10 and 15 years old

·  2007 we were invited by Michezo East Africa International Cup Nairobi Kenya where we won 4 trophies for under 8, 10, 12 and 14 years old

·  2008 we were invited by Ligi NdogoNairobi International Cupwhere we won 3 trophiesunder 8, 12 and 14 years old.

·  2009 – KJT participated in KAJUFA soccer camp for under 12 and 14 years old where we won the under 14 trophy.

·  Successful participated in Norway cup and finishes in a forth position ( among the 150 teams participated in this age group of under 14 years)

·  2009 we participated in league Ndogo Nairobi international cup where we won two trophies (Under 13 and Under 15 years old)

2) Education sponsorship:

Kampala Junior Team has managed to search for 100 sports bursaries in some primary and secondary schools and later enabled at least 100 of all its Children to enroll for these bursaries in the selected schools. Some of the schools include:

1.  Primary:

·  Bat valley P/S,

·  Nakivubo Blue P/s,

·  Citizen Parents PS,

·  MacKay Memorial P/S,

2.  Secondary:

·  St Andrews Kagwa SSS

·  Kasala, May Christian College Nkumba,

·  Namugona High School,

·  St Mary's Kitende,

·  Bujuko High School Mitiyana.

·  Victoria High School Nansana

3.  Computer training:

Some of the youth have been equipped with knowledge in computer use.

CHALLENGES:

Currently KJT' has been thriving on contributions from Parents, and well wishers. However, due to its recent success in the previous tournaments, and invitations to play international tournament/leagues, such contributions are not sufficient enough for KJT to undertake those activities, which requires developing a stronger collaboration with partners both locally and international.

Specifically, Kampala junior team needs the following in order to operate effectively.

·  Funding/Donations

·  Club House.

·  Play Grounds

·  Office premises

·  Feeding disadvantage children

·  Scholastic materials

·  Transport

·  Medicine

·  Theater Costumes

·  Orphanage home

PARTNERSHIPS:

Kampala Junior team is seeking partners from the Individuals, Government, Corporate Companies, and Non Governmental Organizations so as to make this noble cause a success.

Our Plea

“Your Generous Contribution and collaboration could care for and enable KJT to fulfill its dreams”