People

Sarah is a founding member of MTG and has recently become the Executive Director. She managed the programme in its early days, moved into monitoring and evaluation and is now developing a business plan for a social enterprise to produce and market affordable sanitary pads. She is the author of Playing by Their Rules: coastal teenage girls in Kenya on life, love and football. She spends most of her life involved in things she loves: football, writing, girls' rights and her family. She has two daughters, Flo and Bella and a son, Omondi.

Betty was the chair of the advisory board for three years and remains a very active member as a signatory and member of the finance sub committee. She has sat on many sub committees - the latest one looking at restructuring the remuneration packages for staff members.

Out of MTG she is a farmer and a business woman, running a large agricultural mixed farming enterprise that employs 350 people. She started off in animal husbandry and animal care but has moved on to strategic management as the Executive Director of Kilifi Plantations Limited.

Cocky van Dam joined MTG as a VSO volunteer from Holland in June 2005 and has recently become full-time staff. She is a footballer and a football coach and has set up the coach the coach programme for MTG. She is training girls to be coaches and to lead the CTC programme. She kick started the MTG United teams so that footballers become even better.

Dorcas joined MTK in 2006 as an Advisory Board member. Before that I had a short stint of running the organisation while the manager was on maternity leave. The experience of practically being involved in day-to-day planning, managing of activities, and working with MTG girls made me realise how much fun it can be to work with girls, to listen to their stories, to share in their ups and downs, and still to stand aside and become a mentor, someone they can open up to.Read more...