#EYWWAR24 Resilient Minds, Thriving Futures
Warrior Up-Skill Programme
A martial arts journey to self-empowerment
Our Goal
"At the heart of the Warrior Up-Skill Programme, martial arts become a tool for confidence, focus, and emotional strength. We bring martial arts into schools, empowering teenage girls and boys in underserved communities in Kenya to grow in confidence, resilience, and leadership."
Be part of the Journey
Share your skill. Shape a Future.
You can support the Warrior Up-Skill Programme by:
- ✓Volunteering as a Martial Arts Coach
- ✓Supporting the programme through a pledge or donation
- ✓Contributing your time, expertise, or network
Your support can help a young person build confidence for life.
Become a volunteer — Choose Volunteer With EYW, and tell us how you'd like to contribute.
Donate. Support EYW — Make a pledge: Student Pack — £35. Your name printed on a student's gloves or t-shirt. This supports a month of Martial Arts training, mentorship, essential gear, and meals during trainings for a young person in Kenya. A warrior's journey in your name.
Train · Mentor · Lead
Be a coach. Change a life.
Focus · Discipline · Impact
Train your team. Lift theirs.
Your Training. Their Future.
Bring purpose into your organisation through a unique leadership experience.
- ✓Engage employees in purpose-driven training
- ✓Build focus, discipline, and resilience
- ✓Support the Warrior Programme in Kenya by enabling EYW to deliver the same experience to students
In partnership with Smartcompass London, we offer Leadership Programmes for your teams under the philosophy: "Embrace your potential by thinking like a warrior".
The Warrior Business Journey is a unique employee engagement experience that combines martial arts principles and soft ethical leadership skills to maximise the potential of your workforce, as individuals and as a team.
All proceeds go to EYW. Your team grows while creating a lasting impact by giving back.
Become a Partner — Choose Partner With EYW, and describe how you'd like to bring the Warrior Programme into your Company. We'll follow up with enthusiasm.
"Train to perform. Empowered to lead."
Why The Warrior Up-Skill Programme
Martial arts combined with sports psychology builds emotional regulation and mental toughness — critical life skills for young people facing adversity in under-resourced environments. This is not just physical training; it's mental resilience in action.
Why This Work Matters Now
In Kenya's underserved communities, 20 million youth under 15 face poverty, violence, and disrupted schooling — and urgently need protection, self-empowerment, and skills that open doors to a brighter future.
What Your Support Makes Possible
Every pledge, volunteer hour, or company partnership delivers training, mentorship, gear, and meals to students in Kenya — turning a Warrior's Journey into reality, meeting each girl and boy where they are.
Our Partners
Building futures, side by side.
Impact Allies
Gloves for Africa
Kenya
Chuks Uwaechia
Coaches
Eric
Kenya
Peris
Kenya
Alessio Leoni
UK
Alfonso
UK