Health and fitness
Health and Fitness
Kenya is treating more preventable illness every year. Pneumonia is the leading registered cause of death in the country’s health facilities, cancer and cardiovascular disease follow it, and non-communicable disease now fills more than half of all hospital beds. Physical inactivity is one of the five risk factors the Ministry of Health’s own strategy targets. A football programme is a health programme: it moves hundreds of thousands of people, screens them where they already gather, and gives every county a reason to keep them moving into adulthood.
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Standards we would hold ourselves to
Screening at registration
Height, weight, blood pressure, vision and hearing recorded when a player signs on, and again each season, with referral routes agreed with the county health team before a facility opens.
A qualified adult on every session
First aid, concussion protocol, hydration and heat guidance, and safeguarding training for every coach and volunteer — the same standard for girls' sessions as boys'.
Data the county can use
Anonymous participation, attendance and screening data shared with county health records, so the health benefit of a pitch can be measured rather than asserted.
These are the standards we are proposing, not services running today. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and no screening programme has been commissioned or agreed with any county.