Racheal Claire Wachira
Founder & Executive Director
Provides strategic leadership, organisational oversight, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and programme coordination.
About Us
Building pathways for youth development through sport, mentorship, and community engagement.
The PlayAble Network is a youth development initiative that uses sport as a platform for engagement, mentorship, learning, and positive social development.
Who We Are
Established from a belief that sport can provide more than recreation, The PlayAble Network works alongside communities, families, schools, grassroots organisations, and local partners to create structured opportunities for young people to learn, develop, and participate positively within their communities.
Our programmes combine sport, mentorship, safeguarding, and community engagement to create supportive environments where young people can build confidence, strengthen social connections, develop life skills, and pursue positive pathways for growth.
The PlayAble Network was established to demonstrate how structured sport programmes can strengthen youth participation, community engagement, mentorship, and local capacity development while creating opportunities that extend beyond the field of play.
Vision
To see young people empowered through sport, supported by their communities, and equipped to realise their potential.
Mission
To use sport, mentorship, and community engagement as practical platforms for youth development, learning, and positive participation.
Leadership Team
The people running the work on the ground every day.
Remy Sheikh
Programme Director
Leads programme design, implementation, mentorship integration, and football-based youth development activities.
Ray Mwaniki
Technical Football Development Lead
Provides technical football guidance, coach support, player development oversight, and grassroots football expertise.
Juliana Angela
Community Engagement & Partnerships Lead
Supports community mobilisation, parent engagement, stakeholder relations, and partnership development.
Get in touch
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