Kenya: Slum Girls Get Golden Chance

2 January 2013

Four lucky girls from slum areas have earned a chance to train with the national women's basketball team which starts preparations this Saturday in readiness for the Fiba Africa Zone Five tourney next month.

The four--Goreti Auma, Susan Rina (Kayole), Winnie Mwikali and Victoria Mwikali from Shauri Moyo-- landed the chance after impressing in the third edition of the national Junior Basketball Skills Development Programme, which ended on Sunday at the Railways Club in Nairobi. The nine-day clinic was sponsored by the Department of Sports in the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

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