Tournaments
Midcity Sports Trust organizes for the tournaments and leagues and subscribes for the participation fees. The trust plans the logistics for transportation and participation in the local tournaments and leagues.
The trust through the programs expose their players to professional competition that help them build on their resilience and improve their skills.
The current ongoing leagues and tournaments are:
- Football Kenya Federation league - Nairobi
- Raising Star Junior League - Nairobi
- Ligi Cup East Africa Limited - Nairobi
Age groups participation - under 9, under 11, under 13, under 15, under 17 and under 19.
Education and Scholarships
Midcity Sports Trust recognizes that Education is crucially important in the life of a child or youth. Without education, children and youths may find it very difficult to compete in the contemporary world. Some talented and skilled children have difficulty in attending school due to lack of school fees. Midcity Sports Trust gives the children who are talented in football skills a second chance, through education sponsorship.
Midcity Sports Trust sponsors selected children/players for high school secondary level only and our strategy is to help the children excel and get good grades, so that they can secure places in college and university, as well as get scholarship from other institutions if they meet the required conditions.
i) Secondary School Education Programs
The beneficiaries of the Midcity Trust education scholarship program are identified through an established system used to profile talented and academically potential players from amongst the soccer players from `Midcity Soccer Club` `City Hawk Club` and `Kayole Girls Club`
Midcity trustees have built working relationships with some local schools in Nairobi and the surrounding region. Under the scholarship programs, some partner schools grant full high school scholarship for the trust beneficiary members. For the trust beneficiaries members who don’t secure full scholarships or no sponsor at all, the trust does subsidize school the fees to the beneficiary members subject to the trust budget allocation.
Discussions with teachers about the pupils’ academic performance, home situation and family structure takes place before meeting the pupil informally, to get to know them and offer encouragement and support.
- Goseta Boys Secondary School- 8 kids/boys
- St. Joseph’s Secondary- 4 kids/boys
- Strathmore University-2 boys
ii) College and University Scholarships
Scholarships provide financial support for students to help pay for a college degree. These funds enable students to obtain education they may not have access. The cost of a college education is rising and covering the rising education costs may be difficult for the most of the underprivileged lot in the society.
An athletic football scholarship or soccer scholarship is a form of scholarship to attend a college or university awarded to an individual based on their academic and athletic capabilities.
The aim of Midcity sports trust is to provide the right environment, coaching, education and life skills to give the players/scholars the best opportunity to succeed once they leave to explore career opportunities. This objective is largely the most beneficial to the talented players who have demonstrated utmost competence and are willing to pursue football as a career and therefore professional football clubs get interested in educating and training the players to achieve their life goals.
Scholarships Success Story
James Mulwa and Edwin Bwire both beneficiaries of Midcity sports trust through Midcity soccer academy have secured full education scholarship at ABM Foot Academy, a Southampton FC football complex facility in Bamako- Mali. The ABM Academy is owned by a football investment group that controlling- Southampton Team (UK), Goztepe (Turkey) and Valenciennes in France.
