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Mukuru Talent Football Academy gives players reason to live

Mukuru Talent Football Academy players in a training session. June 24, 2025. [Nicholas Mambo, Standard]

In the heart of Nairobi’s Mukuru slums, where poverty, unemployment, and drug abuse are everyday realities, a football academy is rewriting this narrative.

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