November 10 – Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has donated $500,000 to the Kakuma project in Kenya.
The Kakuma project is a pilot initiative of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned’s charity Education Above All (EAA) with the objective of improving the lives of refugees in Kenya and providing them with the foundation to build a better future for themselves.
The SC donation is part of a $2 million commitment to the project by EAA.
The sports involvement provided by the SC will bring sports equipment, infrastructure and training of coaches.
Hassan Al Thawadi, Secretary General of the SC said: “We got involved with partners like Educate A Child because of our belief that sport can be used as a catalyst for change…
“We had the chance to visit Kakuma as part of this delegation and saw the extreme difficulties and wanted to help with that. The SC is committed to using sport as a positive means for change so this project made sense for us.”
The SC’s already runs its own Generation Amazing programme which aims to use young leaders from countries such as Nepal, Pakistan, Jordan and Qatar to drive change in their own communities.
“There are actually a lot of synergies between this and another one of our major CSR programmes, Generation Amazing. I think both complement each other and feed into the overall goals we have set ourselves,” said Al Thawadi. “Our agreement is to provide the equipment, infrastructure and train the coaches. We’ll also help with the sporting facilities to allow fundamental skills to be transferred to make a difference.”
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