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Bob and Ingrid Munro

The couple of Bob and Ingrid Munro have left their mark in Kenya via sports, community service and finance.

Bob Munro created the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA), the largest of its kind on the continent, and which aimed at using sports for youth empowerment and social and economic wellbeing. That was in 1987 when sporting talents from Mathare slums crossed Juja Road and gathered to play soccer at the PCEA grounds in Eastleigh estate. They shared sleeveless jerseys and a few balls in what snowballed into Mathare United Football Club in 1994 — which later became the first club outside the Kenyan Premier League to win the 1998 Moi Golden Cup.