Development programmes with a difference
that are making a difference!

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Kibera Combined Football Club (KCFC)


Tom Grimes is responsible for this part of our development programme. We have over forty boys on a team. We purchased them jerseys, shorts and shoes for them. We have engaged a coach and assistant coaches. We assured that as many tribes as possible would be represented on the team to integrated a community recently divided by tribal violence following the last Kenya presidential election. We assure that each boy is enrolled in school; we scrutinize exam results and teacher reports. We meet their parents (those that have parents as many are orphaned). Volunteers who want to assist with Kibera Combined FC are welcome to join us. Visitations to schools will be part of your volunteer work as well.

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Kibera Combined is a football club registered under the laws of Kenya as a self help group. The club is domiciled in Kibera slums, south-west of Nairobi in Kenya, about 20km from the city centre.

Kibera is Africa’s largest slum with a population of one million inhabitants. The name Kibera is derived from a Nubian word ‘Kibra’ which means “forest” or “jungle”.

The club was established to address one of the major problems bedeviling soccer in Kenya – that of lack of a youth programme.

Kibera Combined F.C is a youth outfit that seeks to use football as a tool for addressing the various social vices plying the youth living within the slums of Kibera, while at the same time nurturing soccer talents.

The club has been started right in the centre of one of the poorest neighborhoods where life is difficult for youths growing up. The challenges here range from lack of sanitation, petty and serious crimes, flooding, poor nutrition, slum conflicts and HIV/AIDS among others.