Most successful projects world over once had humble beginnings.
It is from these baby-steps that great ideas, innovations and crucial additions –cum-supplements made such projects a joy to watch in present state.
Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy is among the fast rising football nurseries in Uganda having started with only 10 players and has drastically spread wings to 40 in 24 months.
This academy has its home venue at Nambogo primary school play-ground in Kijabijjo, Gayaza Kalagi road.
The academy has just clocked two years owing to the founding date; 7th April 2019.
Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy is fully registered with the Uganda Youth Football Association (UYFA) under the Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA).
According to Godfrey Brian Ssewanyana, the founder of this academy, the project was put in place having noticed the high level of school drop outs and non- school going children due to excessive poverty in their homes and also others being orphans, their guardians fail to meet their school dues.
Ssewanyana therefore realized the need of bringing these children together into a soccer academy.
“The intension was to promote discipline, to tap, develop and nurture their talents with the assumption that this would later create a channel through which children would acquire school Bursaries (scholarships – full and half) for further education and also connect to the world to achieve their football dreams.” Ssewanyana states.
The academy accommodates children from the ages of 3 to 14 years that are inculcated into the body’s mission and vision;
To identify children’s talents in the field of play, nurture and enable them connect the world with soccer skills.
Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy Mission
To nurture and blossom all children’s talents in the in the field of play in order to enable them connect the world with soccer skills, intimidate the threat of un employment, drug abuse and also groom a generation which respects God, very disciplined on and off the pitch.
Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy Vision
Core Values:
Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy is embedded along the core values of unity and respect one another’s, traditions, history, culture with commitment to work with integrity for all interested community groupings including churches.
Aims of the academy:
Among the targets for the Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy was to identify new talents in football, help children some of whom are orphans acquire quality cheap or free education via half or full bursaries.
Also, talent nurturing and provision of a network to expose the found talents so as to enable the children compete on both domestic and international fronts.
In the same vein, the need to fight alcohol and drug abuse as well narrow the income gaps in homes was another bold decision to start this project.
Objectives:
Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy has a number of objectives that range from training young children from 3-17 years in football, creating a community and sustainable Academy in order to develop football in this part of Uganda.
The academy is also geared towards identifying sports talents in young people and giving them a chance at making a career even a way from the academy, engaging young people in physical and moral education with a view to reducing crime rate, drug abuse as well as the fighting against HIV/AIDS, training young people in the sustainable management of bio-diversities and environmental protection and searching (identifying) cheap or free quality education for our children in the academy to enable them compete favorably on both local and international levels with discipline and respect of God as key factors.
Team leaders:
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Brian Godfrey Ssewanyana.
The academy president is Rose Ndagire, deputized by John Bosco Etoori.
Denis Mayanja is the head coach as the others are; Peter Lutaaya and Ssewanyana.
Rahman Katongole is the captain of the U-9 team, Trevor Matovu skippers the U-13 side and Yusuf Mwesigwa captains the U-15 team.
“Kijabijjo Divine Soccer Academy: We lead the leader”
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