Cancer facility gift proof that sports can change lives

Sports has changed the world in many ways, and in Kenya our sports people have written history with performances that have stunned the world. Opening a newspaper reporting on athletics, it is rare to read about a major victory without seeing a Kenyan name. But there are other ways that sports are changing the Kenyan landscape.

In the Rift Valley, visitors flock to Iten, Eldoret or Kapsabet to watch the Kenyans run. Daily flights from Nairobi will see tourists arriving in droves hoping for a chance to photograph, talk, or train with the champions. There is another venue; a small New York City charity called Shoe4Africa uses sports to change the country. In Kenya, cancer has ravished the headlines as politicians and the public fall victim to the country’s third largest killer.