29/08/2026
SWEET MEMORIES FROM A VERY EMOTIONAL DAY IN KIBIKO - WITH OUR ASHCA GIRLS
What a day today! What a sweet, beautiful, and emotional day we had today.
Today was not just a meeting. Today was a family gathering full of love, tears, and healing. Our meeting with our Ashca girls today was awesome. We sat together and for the first time, we really listened to each other heart to heart.
Our sweet girls, our little champions with big dreams, were finally brave enough to share the heavy load they carry on their small shoulders. And what they shared left all of us with tears in our eyes.
Behind those beautiful smiles you see on the pitch, there is so much pain.
Many of our girls are going through a lot in the hands of their own families and the community. Some parents do not care about their own children. They do not provide love, they do not provide food, they do not support their education or their God-given football talent. Some of these angels are insulted, ignored, and made to feel like they are nothing. They are lonely in their own homes.
And my dear friends, a child who is not loved at home will go out looking for love anywhere.
This pain and this struggle makes them vulnerable. It makes them start engaging with bad company because that bad company pretends to care. That is how our innocent girls end up with early pregnancy, and their bright dreams suddenly come to an end. The pain is so deep that some of them even start using drugs just to forget the pain and the rejection they feel. They just want to numb the hurt, to sleep without crying.
They are not bad girls. Please don't judge them. They are just sweet, innocent girls who are craving love, craving someone to say "I care about you, I believe in you."
BUT TODAY, LOVE FOUND THEM
Today, God brought us angels.
We want to say a very special THANK YOU SO MUCH to our wonderful guests from Harambee Starlets for coming to join us today. You beautiful sisters, you left your busy lives to come to our small village. You hugged our girls, you laughed with them, you shared your own painful stories and your victories. We learned and gained a lot from you. You have planted a seed of hope that will never die.
We thank you, our coaches, for adding your sweet words. Thank you for being the mother / father our girls don't have at home. Thank you for wiping their tears every day and for believing in them when no one else does.
We thank you, our dear Priest, for adding your powerful and sweet words. Thank you for reminding our girls that even when their own parents reject them, God will never reject them. Your prayers have lifted their spirits.
And after all that sharing, after all the tears and healing, we had the most sweet and blessed moment - we had a warm, delicious meal cooked with so much love by our beloved coach who is a mother to us and a family.
She is more than a coach. She is our mother. She is our family. She cooked for us like a mother cooks for her children. We sat together, we ate together, we laughed like one big happy family. For some of our girls, it was the first time in a long time they felt what a real family meal feels like - full of love and togetherness.
Today was sweet. Today was emotional. Today was healing. Today we were a family.
Please help us keep this family together. Please support our girls.
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