VISION STATEMENT

SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB will become the leading elite youth development club in Kenya which will be able to prepare footballers for pursuit of their career in professional soccer and giving everyone in the community the opportunity to participate and be engaged.

MISSION STATEMENT

SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB will maintain its status as a leading and storied Kenyan Football Club, developing elite footballers and teams by providing an organization of the best people, facilities, resources, methods and opportunities- performing at the highest levels in all aspects for stakeholders, supporters, friends and donors both on and off the field.

OUR VALUES
- Helping yourself by helping and empowering others
-  Everyone is equal, regardless of age, religion, economic status, education level, gender, ability or ethnicity.
-  Fair Play
-  Promote safe, friendly and family oriented environment in which players and supporters can enjoy the game of football.
-  Respect

OBJECTIVES
-  To improve the standards of soccer in the country among the youth
-  To teach the young people important life skills
-  Improving the Education standards in the country by using sports
-  Ensure a cleaner environment by using sports as a main tool
-  Bringing the Kenyan youths together using sports
-  Educating the youths on the effects of Drug Abuse, HIV/AIDS using sports
-  To raise the awareness locally, nationally and internationally of the plight of the talented youngsters who flock the SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB        

    and encourage both civic and social responsibility by organizing local sports events, attending tournaments and publicizing the work of the club.

 

SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB STRENGTHS

-  Strong social ties between the club and the community
-  An excellent Facebook page
-  Constant growth and development of the organization since its inception
-  The desire, urge and thirst to go forward and succeed
-  Responsible and committed Sunrise group of coaches and management
-  Our positive reputation in the community

SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB WEAKNESSES
-  Lack of progress in improvements of the current facilities
-  Lack of a modern office where we can conduct our day to day management operations
-  Spread of locations for the players and trainings
-  Lack of ownership of facilities and security of tenure
-  Lack of volunteers in non-playing positions i.e. coaches.
-  Lack of a club website
-  Current soccer equipment are not in a good condition for example soccer balls, uniforms, water cans, training cones, training beeps, 

    soccer boots, etc.
-  Coaches’ level of coaching courses attendance is not impressive
-  Participation in tournaments, friendly games and soccer related events in distant places is poor due to low financial support
-  Lack of Club House to centralize our operations and increase our base

OPPORTUNITIES
-  Attending soccer coaching courses to develop coaches
-  Website development for communication
-  Donating the club with soccer equipment’s /facilities like training cones, shin guards, soccer balls, training beeps, coaching manuals
-  Participation in major soccer seminars, clinics, tournaments, conferences, camps - nationally and overseas
-  Offering education scholarship to our players
-  Hosting of junior soccer tournaments and clinics
-  Running of junior soccer tournaments

OUR AIMS
Social Responsibility
As a social responsibility cause to the society, SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB aims at:
-  Helping the disadvantaged and needy children through sports
-  Removing the children from the streets and transform their lives to be productive citizens
-  Reducing the rate of drug addicts in the community
-  Carrying out of HIV/AIDS awareness campaign
-  Playing an active role in the empowerment of youth economically, socially and politically
-  Creating public awareness about human rights and civic responsibilities through seminars, workshops, publications

Education
-  To offer school scholarships/ bursaries to the disadvantaged and less privileged children to promote their education standards and well being
-  To provide and equip the youth with the basic computer skills
-  To help orphans, children, street kids from the poor families get sponsors for the education studies

ACTIVITIES
SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB is dedicated to promoting the youth education, mobilizing and organizing children for sports and other social activities in order to avoid crime, Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS. We have been and aim to continue being successful in integrating the young and ambitious sportsmen into the society by:
-  Recruiting and training the young sports with talents
-  Organizing and participation in local, national, regional and international soccer tournaments and leagues
-  Providing computer training to the SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB children
-  Carrying out HIV/AIDS campaign awareness

 

SOURCES OF FUNDING AND SUPPORT
The sources of funding of SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB include support from the well-wishers, gifts and bequests
The club is also trying to in future fund itself by
-  Promoting talent: identifying, grooming and selling of football talents, skills and expertise
-  Commercial advertising: To generate revenue by selling advertising space on club materials and events.
-  Investing in income generating activities: Starting up club business generating activities to sustain the club

CHALLENGES
Currently SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB has been thriving on donations from well-wishers, friends and supporters. However such support is not sufficiently enough for SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB children to operate in a steady way to help the children with their education, getting soccer equipment’s, treatment of injuries which are unavoidable, providing clothing to some of the children and transportation to distant places for matches. Next year(2015) the under 17 team will be playing in the lower division of the Kenya Football Federation League and there is need to raise an annual budget to cater for participation fee, Transport to and from distant playing fields which at the moment we can’t raise alone but we too can’t let these lads back into the streets.
Specifically, SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB needs the following to be able to operate efficiently and effectively:
-  Monetary Funding/Donations mainly to cater for our participation in the league and in case of major injuries
-  Donations of either new or used soccer equipment like soccer balls, uniforms, boots, training cones, water cans, training cones, beeps and such  like equipments.
-  Health care
-  Transport
-  Medicine
-  Club House
-  Scholastic materials
-  Feeding of the disadvantaged children

BENEFICIARIES
- The primary Beneficiaries
The primary Beneficiaries of the SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB include the club's disadvantaged children and the youths who participate in the clubs activities every now and then.

- The secondary Beneficiaries
The secondary beneficiaries of the SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB program include following :
- Corporate companies, soccer clubs, soccer academies, Individuals, and the Non-governmental Organizations that partner with SUNRISE  FOOTBALL CLUB
- The parents and siblings of the disadvantaged children who are part of the SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB
-  The communities where these disadvantaged children come from especiall the Umoja estate, Mathare slums, Kayole estate, Kariobangi South  estate
- The government of Kenya especially the Ministry of Education, The Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Security Ministry

SUCCESSES
 

SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB has managed to register successes in its endeavor to support the disadvantaged children in sustainable talent identification, skill development and contribution to the social cause for the public responsibility
Education Scholarship
Due to the lack of funding, SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB has managed to only get scholarships for 5 players who joined Kakamega High School, Mautuma High School, Chavakali High School which are in western Kenya and Passenga High School in Rift Valley. With adequate funding and networking surely we can do a lot.
Promotion of Talent
Since 2009 SUNRISE FOOTBALL CLUB has managed to nature more than 100 soccer players who have joined other soccer clubs for example Ismail- Premeir league side Gor Mahia under 19 team, Walter Kesenwa- FISA academy, Edwin Ramogi- Provincial side Macmillan fc and lots of other playing for various Provincial league teams.

Tournaments :
2010- Makaro Youth Tournament- 4th position in under 10 categories
2010 Tena Ustwai Cup- Finalists in under 12 category
2011- Green field soccer tournament- Under 12 crowned winners, under 14 finished third
2011- MYSA Youth championships- under 12 Quarter finalists
2011-Kimbro Soccer Foundation- Under 14 Quarter finalists
2012- VAP under 17 soccer tournament- Finished 3rd
2012- MYSA League- under 10 finished 3rd, under 12 winners, Under 14 winners, under 17 runners up
2012- MYSA Zonal Championships- Under 12 finished 2nd, Under 14 semifinalists, Under 17 Quartfinalists
2013- MYSA league- under 10 runners up, under 12 winners, under 14 winners, under 17 Runners up
2013 CHIPUKIZI under 12 cup- under 12 runners up
2013- ChezaAfrika under 14 tournament-winners
2013 – Eastlands Community under 17 Cup (ECC) – winners