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Community Service

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In its endeavor to keep the dream of helping keep youth occupied, Thika United has embarked on several projects for the youth, namely, a vibrant youth program and the affiliation to a Boxing Club. Thika United in conjunction with the church has launched a free website for assisting youth get jobs. The website cowakenya.org is free end-to-end and costs neither the prospective employer nor the prospective employee any money to post their vacancies or their CVs..

Already, Thika companies are being lobbied to put their vacancy notices in the website for all jobs from manual work to professional. The Thika United sponsor, Brookside Dairy will begin to post its notices in the website shortly.

Feed The Children - Dagoretti Children Center (11^th Dec. 2003)

Thika United football club in collaboration with Brookside dairy Ltd engaged in a ‘feed the children’ campaign as part of the community service theme in keeping with the resolutions of the Inter Clubs Consultative Group (ICCG).

The occasion took place on 11th December, 2003 and the targeted Zone was the Dagoretti children center.

The programme began at 11 a.m. with Mr. Peter Wesonga the Marketing Manager of Brookside Dairy donating foodstuff to the team through Mr. Michael Muriuki, team manager of the Thika United Football club.

The entourage left Brookside at 12.00 noon for the Dagoretti Children’s Center via the Museum Hill crescent where they picked up photo-journalists who would cover the event.

A grand reception awaited the whole entourage when they arrived at 3.00pm. The atmosphere was pregnant with anticipation and the weather just right for the visit and the programme that followed.

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"NO LIMITS" Thika United kids day 20/12/03

Saturday the 20th of December 2003 marked another community services function performed at the Thika Municipal stadium. This time around the concerned groups were as usual Thika United football club, Brookside dairy limited and a locally based youth organization calling itself “NO LIMITS.”

Brookside provided milk and some other products while the “NO LIMITS” crew gave out loaves of Bread, squash and Biscuits as a way of ensuring the street kids were well nourished.

The programme began at exactly 11 am, in the morning. Dressed up in their their Brookside tracksuits, the players joined their colleagues at town hall to receive a few highlights regarding the lined-up activities to crown the day. This was done by the deputy social services in the Thika municipal council who later on flagged off the group to officially start their campaign.

The exercise involved collecting some extra food-stuffs from various retail shops in the town and behind them was the Thika United mini Bus wrapped in a “NO LIMIT” flag and inside, announcements focusing on the event, was strongly done in a manner suggesting how splendid the exercise was. At 1 p.m the entire participants /group together with the desired group of street kids flocked the stadium to fulfill their mission. The feeding went on smoothly despite some tricks from the kids who were hiding and jumping again to the queue pretending not to have been fed.

The process ended at 2.15 p.m. and the players departed the scene, took their their lunch and headed for the Transparency cup-final at Kasarani.The match was organized by the ICCG and Utalii carried the day by whipping Gor Mahia 2-1.In a pulsating final watched by among others, special envoys from different embassies At stake was ksh 750,000 for the 1st prize and 500,000 for the runners up. Third position ksh 250,000, and 150,000, went to the fourth position respectively.

ICCG is doing some recommendable job and it’s a high time for the K.F.F to try and amend their style of governing football in this nation as a way of appreciating the ICCG creativity.