Martina In Mathare
Published December 06, 2010 12:00
Martina visited the Laureus Sport For Good program in Mathare, one of the poorest Nairobi slums.
Martina checked out the Mathare Youth Sports Association, a groundbreaking Laureus youth program.
The program is one of many that will benefit from Martina's climb up Mount Kilimanjaro this week.
Martina tried her foot at penalties during her visit to MYSA, the Mathare Youth Sports Program.
MYSA organizes soccer matches for 20,000 young players. Laureus has supported MYSA since 2000.
German paralympic cyclist Michael Teuber, who will join Martina this week, visited Mathare slums.
In November Martina did some pre-Kilimanjaro promo, climbing the Bank Of America Tower in New York.
Martina posed at the Bank Of America Tower with her climbers from the New York Laureus programs.
Before climbing the Bank Of America Tower, Martina led a series of warm-ups for her group.
Martina with Ombeni Sefue, Tanzanian Ambassador to the US, on top of the Bank Of America Tower.
Martina visited youth from Mathare, one of the poorest slums in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The Mathare slums is inhabited by approximately 500,000 people across a 16 kilometer radius.
One of the soccer teams from MYSA.
The legwear of one of the MYSA teams.
One of the soccer teams from MYSA.
