Lalibela, Ethiopia - Edinbugh, Scotland - Ikotos, South Sudan - Maputo, Mozambique - San Francisco, California - Petra, Jordan - Istanbul, Turkey - Telluride, Colorado - Lake Kivu, Rwanda - Don Det, Laos - Koh Tao, Thailand - Semuc Champey, Guatemala - Caye Caulker, Belize - NYC, NY
Places I want to go to:
Everywhere I haven't already been. Right now I'm planning a horse trek in Mongolia next summer with mi madre, plus a trip to Nova Scotia/Newfoundland/Labrador sometime in the next year.
About me:
Former national soccer player turned UC Berkeley folklore groupie and songwriter; quit a job in book publishing to travel in the Middle East, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. I'm currently News Editor at Ethical Traveler and I also work as a freelance writer/developmental book editor/creative hack. This year I'll be in NYC for a writing fellowship with Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
COMMANDOSTARS FOOTBALL CLUB
AFFLIATED TO
MBUINZAU MATAMBYA MUONZA COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION
P.O.BOX 125,
KIBWEZI
PREAMBLE
FROM THE CHAIRMAN
The above mentioned club was started by Joseph Lee Musembih in the year 2000
He started this club starting with players of under 14 years with the assistance of Teacher Mutunga Josiah who by then was a sports Teacher at mbuinzau primary school
The primary goals was to keep the youth busy after school and during week-ends since the place was so much invaded by drug abuse among the youth
Easily they get Marijuana and miraa from chyullu hills and even mbuinzau hills.
As a result of this football club many youths turned up for football activities and drug abuse started fading because some sessions of rehabilitating the youths were carried out during practice time.
This club has grown and currently it as a senior team of all ages and there is now problem of funding the club.
The only funding member of this club is the founder who is the team manager of the club
This club has featured through small leagues, from location level up to provincial levels.
It could have reached national level but due to myriad of problems it’s still at the grass root levels.
Poor scouting of players in the country has demoralized most of the player especially at these lower levels.
Soccer scoters never reach to this grassroots levels and good players end up being good for nothing.
It’s my humble request for anybody who may feel touched by our problems to come forward and assist this young people who want to discover their talents in soccer.
These young men admire the likes of premier league players, la liga, and bundesliga
And most of African national players
You may wonder finding big names in the club, who normally pretends to be like the big guns in football. I’m also appealing to the outside world to assist us in modifying this youth to become good players and managers of their own development. The back ground of the entire youth is so poor because their parents earns less than a dollar a day and cannot afford three square meals in a day.
Most of this youth come from families where there is no:-
1) food
2) Education
3) Health facilities
4) Infrastructure
5) Water and sanitation
6) Good clothing
And among the dangers of these kids are:-
1) Drug abuse
2) Child labor
3) Early pregnancies
4) Early marriages
5) Witchcraft
6) Petty Thieves
These youth can be of very much importance if at all they can get support. Especially when they get playing facilities they can be able to discover their talents in sports. I would therefore urge you guys up there to support these little ones.
Whoever reads this message, please try how you can help these young boys
May God bless you?
Pius Musyoka
Word from the team manager
It’s my pleasure seeing these young ones excel in their quest for soccer. By the way soccer nowadays pays purely and keeps people busy.
It’s also my cry to the youth of the world to assist their counterparts who are desperate and cannot afford to buy themselves playing kits nor can’t their parents do so.
I have straggled with commando stars football club since its interception. I have been using my own money to bring up this boys but since both of our backgrounds is poor it has come to an extend whereby situations beyond my measures has forced me to see this club start fading when I can do nothing to savage it.
Of late I lost three of my brothers through road accidents and I have to take care of their families with my little resources thus forcing me not to support my beloved youth football club.
I would therefore request any well-wisher or sponsor to come up through the will of God And assist this club with either
Sports kit,
Monetary values etc
Feel touched and help these little ones.
We are situated at about 250 kilometers southeast of Nairobi on your way to Mombassa the chief seaport of East Africa.
This place is called mbuinzau and it is an arid place. People her grow maize, Beans, Cowpeas, Sweetpotatoes but they don’t get good harvest due to very little rain.
Among other activities of this place is bee keeping and animal rearing e.g. keeping beef cattle, goats, sheep and rare rabbits
May the love of the most high touch you and come to our rescue
Kind regards
Mr. Joseph lee musembih
Team manager.
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