Our play-based, peer-led programs build life skills, promote mental wellness, and create brighter futures through sport. WATOTO WASOKA was founded in 2009. We are a local NGO in the heart of Kampala’s slums. We are a non-profit, youth-led, community development organisation that uses football as a vehicle for social change in the life of slum children in Uganda. We aim to change lives, one game at a time, by creating purposeful opportunities for play through structured football programs. As such, we use football as our main attraction and medium of expression. As one of our main support concepts, we facilitate access to primary and secondary education for slum children. Through our close ties with the local slum football scene and public and private schools, we have a unique network which has enabled more than 500 kids to attend school which they would otherwise not have. We also run two of Uganda’s most exciting football events for disadvantaged youths: the annual Christmas Camp and Slums Derby, whose last editions were attended by 2,200 and 700 kids from all across Uganda respectively.
