By Peninah Njakwe

They are not only the beauties and the diehard fans who grace the club but are a hand of charity as well. Am talking of the Ingwe Ladies who paid a visit to the Lang’ata Women’s Prison over the last weekend. Their main Agenda was to reach and touch the lives of the young children living with their mothers inside there. Most of the kids there are aged between three months and three years. They don’t see much of the outside world and thus rely on well wishers to bring it to them and the Ingwe Ladies went on to do that. The Ingwe Ladies left a mark in the lives of the little ones and their mothers as well. A mark of joy portrayed by a smile.

The kids were entertained in a bouncing castle where a clown ensured they had the ultimate fun. It was then followed by face painting where every kid was painted whatever they wanted. Their mothers watched on with smiles of gratitude engraved on their faces. “Am glad you did this. My child is so happy today, may God bless you so much”, said one of the mothers with tears filing up her eyes.

Now came a time to show the moves on the dance floor. The kids yet so young knew how to move with the beat. Our ladies watched and danced along as they too showed what they had learnt over the years. Their mothers dint join, rather they watched their kids have all the fun.

That part of the event was closed by giving out books plus other stationeries to those kids who were old enough and were attending school. Other materials were also given to their school to aid in their leraning.It was like adding wood to a burning fire to help it burn even the more and for much longer. You could tell from the way they scribbled on the books that they were really excited and that they would want to use whatever they had received that day.

After lunch with the kids, we proceeded to the football pitch. The women had their team and you could tell from how they played during practice that they were one strong team.Ingwe Ladies however were not in a position to play. “Not that we are not good players, actually we are one good team. Only that we were not prepared for a game today”, explained Iddah one of the officials.

The women’s Prison Team divided itself to two teams and they had a match. The Ingwe Ladies now rose to do what they knew best, cheering.They sang and cheered on to one of the teams they had dubbed “Ingwe”.They however assured that they were good players and would be honored to play with them sometime in the future.
The event which was sponsored by the AFC Leopards main office, Kenyanstar, Claws Trust and the Mumias Sugar Company who are the official sponsors of the team ended with a vote of thanks by the chairlady to the whole fraternity for their kind welcome and even for a chance to come there. They then left for the Nyayo Stadium where the AFC Leopards were having a match.

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