The majority of the beneficiaries come from low-income and underserved backgrounds. These are youth who live in communities classified as deprived based on demographic characteristics or as defined in national census statistics.
The programme targets youth from urban and peri-urban slum communities, aged 11 to 25, 50% girls, 50% boys, including children with special needs.
SOL’s contribution
With support of The SOL Foundation JA Africa will be able to pilot their programme, that combines the aspiration for sport with the life skills, in three new countries after it has been implemented successfully in Kenya over the last three years; namely in Johannesburg in South Africa, Lusaka in Zambia and Harare in Zimbabwe.