480
Teams
registered through the Capt. Irene Ndanu Soccer Summit.
A serious countywide structure for grassroots football, mentorship, and local pride.
Touching one life at a time
Grounded in Service, Guided by Discipline.
Captain Irene Ndanu is a Kenyan commercial pilot, founder, and public leader shaping opportunity through service, sport, mentorship, and community work.
A disciplined voice for responsibility, partnership, and practical leadership.
Discipline
Calm judgment under pressure
Service
Opportunity close to people
Leadership
Voice, partnership, responsibility
480
teams registered
9,600+
players reached
800
youth trained
The numbers
Evidence that the work has already touched the ground.
Scale, participation, and proof of organised support that serious partners can build on.
9,600+
Players
reached through grassroots football, mentorship, and countywide participation.
Young people are given a field, a team, trusted adults, and a reason to stay engaged.
40
Wards
represented across Machakos through organised community sport.
The work moves beyond one venue and reaches communities where young people already live.
800
Youth trained
through Glam on Wheels beauty, grooming, and enterprise skills sessions.
Practical beauty, grooming, and enterprise skills brought closer to young people seeking income pathways.
From pilot to builder
The same discipline that belongs in the cockpit now shapes the work on the ground.
01
The discipline of flight
Aviation trains a leader to prepare before the room, stay calm when pressure rises, and understand that people are depending on the decision being made.
02
The responsibility of visibility
Public recognition becomes useful when it opens doors for real programmes: football structures, skills training, mentorship, women, youth, and community support.
03
The work on the ground
The platform keeps returning to fields, training rooms, community visits, and partner conversations because impact is proven close to people.
Public work
Visibility with purpose. Influence with impact.
Interviews, awards, football partnerships, and community visits all point back to the same question: who gets helped next?
Giving women practical rooms to learn, work, and lead
Speaking plainly about women, safety, and leadership
A football partnership built for young players in Machakos
Community work done face to face
A public profile tied back to service
Using visibility to bring support closer
Real moments from public appearances, community work, media conversations, and partnership rooms.
View MediaHow it works
Programmes with names.
People with needs.
The work is built through Glam on Wheels, Wora Foundation, the Soccer Summit, mentorship, and public advocacy. Each platform has a clear audience and a clear reason to exist.
01
Voice
02
Access
03
Legacy
Useful support can be financial, technical, institutional, media-facing, or deeply practical: tools, trainers, venues, equipment, and people willing to follow through.
Recognition
Trust signals for partners, sponsors, institutions, and press.
Captain Irene Ndanu's platform is backed by real media coverage, named programmes, measurable reach, and public recognition, including the Transformational Leadership in Youth Empowerment & Community Impact Award from the Independent Kenya Women Awards.
Independent Kenya Women Awards
Awarding body
Youth empowerment & community impact
Recognition
Media coverage
Citizen Digital, FKF, The Standard, YouTube, and public social video coverage connect the platform to verified public work.
Recognition
Independent Kenya Women Awards recognised her transformational leadership in youth empowerment and community impact.
Partnership-ready
The work has named programmes, clear audiences, live media links, and real outcomes partners can evaluate.
Public credibility
Aviation discipline, community presence, media visibility, and measurable reach sit together on one platform.
Born in Kenya. Rooted in Africa. Connected to the World.
For media, speaking, partnerships, and programme support