Levelling the playing field: Blind football coaching kicks off for Kenya’s visually impaired youngsters

Levelling the playing field: Blind football coaching kicks off for Kenya’s visually impaired youngsters

Visually impaired football enthusiasts were out for coaching on Tuesday under the Nairobi-based ‘Alive and Kicking’ initiative, which is introducing blind football in schools and community centres across the country.“Alive and Kicking is a social enterprise that does balls – more specifically, for this project, we do sound balls,” said the initiative’s project manager, Andrew Oloo.By making noise as they move, sound balls enable players with vis…