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23/02/2022
One Stone FC's Kawangware base to undergo major facelift
For along time, Kawangware based One Stone FC has acted as a feeder to the various clubs plying trade in the Football Kenya Federation Nairobi Regional leagues.
The outfit has produced prolific players who have been great forces to reckoned with locally and internationally.
Currently, the club is on its knees.
The team is a pale shadow of its former self following indulgences in crime and drug addiction by its members.
Some have gone as far as being incarcerated.
It is on this note that the betting firm BetKing has come on board to help resucitate the team and their Dagoretti Community Youth Sports Centre base.
"We have a league that will kick off in Kawangware in March.
"One Stone FC is among the ten clubs in the zone that we are targeting to support," BetKing Kenya Head of Marketing Klaire Muriithi said.
Muriithi reiterated that the KSh500,000 that her organisation donated on Wednesday will be used to refurbish the hall which acts as a central point for meeting socialization by the players and the community at large.
"The sports centre is very multipurpose, it is where the vulnerable, drug addicts, ex-convicts, street children and commercial s*x workers interact during their rehabilitation.
"It is also acting as a central point where the players and other locals meet to watch their favourite English Premier League games.
"So renovating it will be beneficial to the players and the community around," said Klaire.
“We will partner with the Dagoretti Youth Welfare Organisation to enhance the current viewing structure which has seen wear and tear over the years and has been damaged with significant road construction taking out a portion of its structure," Klaire assured.
Former One Stone player, Hadisi Ramadhan, welcomed the refurbishment terming it a very timely idea.
"We are confident that with this kind gesture, the team will be revived and the players will be back to football very soon.
"This in turn, will help to lessen crime in the area," he said.
“This centre has been the home to many abandoned youths who are in recovery.
"It provides a recreational and sports centre for them, a place to gather as a community.
"We appreciate this donation, will help renovate this place and make it more habitable and making a huge difference in the daily lives of the individuals," he added.
The community sports centre was founded in 1996.
The centre is a safe haven where the community can safely interact with each other while making a living from their sports and movies viewing center.
PHOTO CAPTION: BetKing Senior Manager Expansion, Business Operations Mario Ziadeh and Head of Marketing Klaire Muriithi during sponsorship launch in Kawangware that will see One Stone FC base undergo amajor facelift.PHOTO/ ELVIS OGINA
12/02/2022
Joyce Chepkemoi (0:34:02) and Samuel Chebolie (0:29:46) win 10km Senior women and men categories at the Agnes Tirop Memorial World Cross Country Tour in Eldoret.
12/02/2022
Agnes Tirop Memorial World Cross Country Gold Tour selected results.
12/02/2022
Joyline Chepkemoi clocks 18:05 to win Girls U-18 5km Race at the ongoing Agnes Tirop Memorial World Cross Country Gold Tour at the Lobo Village in Eldoret on Saturday.
12/02/2022
Some of the actions during the Girls 1km Kids Race in the Agnes Tirop Memorial World Cross Country Gold Tour at the Lobo Village in Eldoret on Saturday.
12/02/2022
Nairobi AK Chairman Barnaba Korir
awarding winners of Girls 1km Kids Race during Agnes Tirop Memorial World Cross Country Gold Tour at the Lobo Village in Eldoret on Saturday.
12/02/2022
11/02/2022
11/02/2022
Ongoing Agnes Tirop World Cross Country Gold Tour press conference in Eldoret.
09/02/2022
Purity Chepkirui
Nationality: Kenyan
Specialty: 1500m
HONOURS
World Under-20 champion- 2021
Second at the National Junior Cross Country Championships – 2022
Personal best : 4:10.39
09/02/2022
09/02/2022
For the first time in history, the senior women's 10km race will be the final event during the World Cross Country Tour. This will be done to honor the late world-beater Agnes Tirop.
07/02/2022
07/02/2022
Here are selected athletes to take part in the Agnes Tirop Memorial World Cross-Country Gold Tour at Lobo Village in Eldoret on February 12, 2022.
06/02/2022
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Here are the selected results for the
First Athletics Kenya Track and Field Weekend Meeting at Nyayo National Stadium:
Men.100m
1.Benson Okot 10.0
2.Tanzania Kamanga 10.2
3.Mark Kangethe 10.4
4.Robinson Motende 10.6
5.Hesbon Ochieng 10.7
6.Stephen Oluoch 10.9
Men 200m
1.Elijah Mathew 21.09
2.Boniface Mweresa 21.23
3.Wiseman Were 21.39
4.Stephen Oluoch 21.47
5.Collins Omae 21.50
6.Mark Kangethe 21.62
3000m Steeplechase
1.Amos Serem 8:33.84
2.Vincent Kipchumba 8:40.39
3.Wesley Lagat 8:42.36
Women 800m
1. Josephine Chelangat 2:04.2
2.Judy Jepkoech 2:07.3
3.Christine Ndanu 2:07.3
4.Jacinta Apese 2:09.6
10km walk women
1.Emily Ngil 1:43.6
2.Sylvia Kemboi 1:46.4
3.Naum Jepkurui 2:04.4
4.Violet Chepkurui 2:04.4
5.Sharon Jepkurui 2:13.1
10,000m women
1.Agnes Mumbua 33:17.18
2.Emily Chebet 33:55.52
3.Dorothy Kapkikach 3:57.29
4.Mercy Chepkorir 3:36.63
5.Penina 3:47.93
6.Agnes Nyambuto 44:32.0