Increasing HIV/AIDS Awareness Through Football
August 2025
Through our Peer Education Programme, the Nasio Trust hosts regular football fixtures between partner schools across Mumias West Sub County.
The football games are a medium for the charity to conduct HIV sensitisation sessions, answer questions about Sexual Education, distribute condoms and conduct HIV tests in a destigmatised, non-clinical setting. In using this innovative context to spread more awareness about the transmission of HIV, the Nasio Trust is able to reach out-of-school youth as well.
In 2024, we sensitised 1,100 youth through our football tournaments whilst testing 300 people who had not previously been a participant in Nasio’s programmes.
In 2024, we sensitised 1,100 youth through our football tournaments whilst testing 300 people who had not previously been a participant in Nasio’s programmes.
Participating in a sport after school keeps young people engaged and away from risk behaviours such as transactional sex, drug abuse and truancy. The school football team also offers an opportunity for impressionable young people to find role models amongst their peers.
Greenblades, is a local girl’s football team that we support through bi-monthly sessions on SRH and menstrual hygiene during their training sessions at a local school called Ahong’injo Secondary School. Our partnership with Greenblades aims to promote sport among youth, particularly girls, while also encouraging them to improve their general health and develop their personal skills during their free time.
This story is listed in: 15 Years Of Nasio, Inspirational Women, Projects
