Project Outline

Primary objective

• securing or creating a sustainable source of income for the organisation known as the Kampala Junior Team (KJT), a fledgling sporting academy with big ambitions and an overriding concern for the welfare of it’s members

Primary means

• collaborative online pooling of talent

Guiding principle

• give what you gain, you’ll gain more then you give

Short term goals

• creating and consolidating a network of interested parties and individuals, to include artists, entrepreneurs, PR people, the tech savvy, sports fans, journalists, aid and development workers, the KJT organisers in Kampala, and anyone else who has ideas, experience, or practical help to offer.

Assets

• 3 successful boys’ football teams and a newly created girls’ team
• 3 dedicated and hard-working organisers on the ground
• a small but supportive network of individuals with varying degrees of experience in the field of international development (to date, soccer boots and kits, 70 GBPounds and 1 computer have been donated thanks to the Facebook groups Boots for a Soccer Team , Kayiwa Fred’s Computer Club and the KJT Wales Supporters Club) (September update – further donations have since been received by the KJT, including one from Germany in honour of the KJTs outstanding performance at the recent Ligi tournament in Nairobi)

Ambitions

• solving the problem of housing and caring for the 20 or so orphaned young team members who currently stay with coach Kabugo (and who do not attend school as they have no means of paying their school fees – education costs in Uganda)
• developing and expanding the range of sporting, social and educational opportunities the KJT provides in the community
• ultimately enabling the KJT to function successfully as a social business and to manage it’s own structural and financial affairs

The next step I envisage a collaborative blog entitled KJT International.

Interested ? Please leave a comment.

More information on the KJT can be found here :

http://www.onehelpinganother.com/