Through sport, the Black Cats Academy provides an alternative to street life and gang culture, inculcating positive values of trust, commitment, teamwork, cooperation, discipline, a healthy lifestyle and above all providing fun activities for Kenyan girls and boys who would otherwise lack such opportunities.

The Black Cats works closely with other Moving Mountains Kenya programmes such as Educational and Social Welfare Support and the Embu Rescue Centre and is led by dedicated coaches who are from the communities we work with and act as role models and mentors to the young people.

Crucially, the Black Cats, in turn, gives Moving Mountains the chance to provide counselling, advice, help and encouragement to the young people to remain in or return to education or alternatively set up small businesses through start-up grants.