The Director of Umoja Orphanage charity organization invited the Serbian Ambassador to Kenya, H.E. Mr. Dragan Zupanjevac, to attend the benefit football tournament and cultural event, organized in Kibera as a token of gratitude to the Serbian Embassy which facilitated two Kenyan young football players coming to Serbia for education and an opportunity to play for a Serbian team.

Ambassador Zupanjevac was honoured by the warm welcome, namely, a large panel was placed beside the football pitch welcoming the Ambassador, while the players wore football shirts with Kenyan and Serbian flags.  During the match and cultural programme, Serbia as a sports nation was mentioned many times, and so was the readiness and goodwill of many young talented athletes from Kibera to come to Serbia and become members of local sports teams.



Kibera, a slum well-known worldwide, is a home to 70,000 people living in an extremely inhuman conditions, without water, electricity and bare necessities. Ambassador Zupanjevac visited the kindergarten and primary school, in a building made of mud and sheet metal, where the children of Kibera were able to hear from him for the first time about a country in Europe called Serbia, where sports are popular and good football is played.


"Seeing that Serbia would be providing assistance to developing countries on its EU accession path, for which we were already offered support by the UN Country Team in Serbia, I believe that Kenya as our important foreign trade partner in Eastern Africa, also extending to us its principled support concerning Kosovo and Metohija, could be one of the key end-users of our assistance in the fields of education, sports and beyond", concluded Ambassador Zupanjevac.