1. SKY CLUB SUPER ACADEMY
Fostering child learning and growth through football and education
What the program is!
Sky Club Super Academy is a premier and semi-autonomous football and education development program designed and dedicated to nurturing young school talent from remote communities and schools to produce classical talented football splayers. Our mission is to provide a holistic football education and mentorship, fostering uprightness in technical, tactical, physical and mental growth to enable a child achieve academic goals.
What is driving this passion
We are driven by the impact ot the mother -project "Huracan FC Sky Club Uganda" that was implmemented across 4 schools and yielded huge impacts towards bringing children back to school, regulating their school attendance and improving their positional academic performance.
The program realized a significant 19.4% reduction in the rate of school absnteeism among participants, 3.7% academic improvement and a 23.4% decline in the numbeber of cases of documented indiscipline in one year of existence.
Academy Programs
Education and Personal Child Development
School follow-up, academic assessment and sessions, Life skills, nutrition and mentorship.
Community Engagement
Outreach initiatives.
Home visits to teammates
Expert Coaching
Techinical, tactical, physical conditioning, mental preparation, competition and performance management
2. HURACAN FC SKY CLUB SCHOOL PROJECT
"Football and Education"
+In funding support from the Huracan Foundation
Objective and Targets
- Using football as a mean to attract children to come to school, attend classes inorder to reduce absenteeism and dropout.
- Incorporating mentorship program for the children into football sessions to broaden lesson methods for behavioral and mindset change for education.
- Removing gender-marginalization on girls participation in football through the girls' football team.
- Developing and improving football skills and talent of children inorder to prepare them for future opportunities (scholarships and professional footballing).
- Nurturing a movement of young girls who are focused toward advocating for a menstrual stigma-free school environment
The School Teams
- 2 schools in fully active participation and football development as center school. (67 active players, 32 girls and 35 boys)
- 6 associated schools on partial partcipation (an open play team of over 4,500 children in the schools
Coaching Team
- A team of six coaching managment members with experience in local sports who are passionate about child education.
- 1 qualified Teacher, two experienced local football officials in the District and 3 Bachelor's Degree Graduates working with Sky Girl Initiative from different Academic Disciplines
How we operate the Football Project
- We develop football team in schools called "Huracan FC Sky club Uganda". Two nearby schools (Nabuganyi C/U and Nabuganyi R/C) are Center-Program Schools. Both the boys' and girls' teams are fully structured.
- Children are trained three times (days) every week from 4:30pm to 6pm on football skills and knowledge.
- We conduct friendly games for atleast one of the teams after every two weeks.
- Associate schools have on-spot training every month which allow the Center-Program Schools to visit them and have combined training with them, identify challenges faced, share school and football experiences and identify potential great players for better recommendations.
- We also conduct after match mentorship and child guidance to improve on the social behavior and mindset for education.
- There are other nin football activities that comes in when need arises to improve on the social, cultural and future educational journey of a child.
Gallery
Photos from football activities
