Christian Okoye Foundation Objective
Education. Ideas. Sports. The primary mission of the Christian Okoye Foundation is to capture the passion children have for sports, and direct that energy to enhance their educational and personal goals. The Foundation draws at-risk and underprivileged youth by hosting free athletic clinics, where well-known professional athletes coach the kids. Once at the Foundation’s events, the kids are given unparalleled training in sports and, importantly, are encouraged to develop business and entrepreneurial skills by the Foundation’s corporate sponsors. The Foundation’s decision to use athletics as a vehicle for exposing the kids to the business world gave rise to the Foundation’s motto, “Education, Ideas and Sports.”
Even as a young boy growing up in his native Nigeria, Christian recognized the importance that sports would play in defining his future. Ever grateful for the opportunities that athletics afforded him, Christian works to motivate at-risk youth to define and achieve their goals by emphasizing the importance of drive and commitment. Through his Foundation, the “Nigerian Nightmare” uses sports to help kids understand the importance of education, community, focus and drive. Christian also instructs the kids on health issues, including drug abuse, proper nutrition and exercise. On average now, the Christian Okoye Foundation touches the lives of 500 kids each year.
The Christian Okoye Foundation events offer young men and women the opportunity to develop and refine the essential skills in their respective areas of interests. Each event offers a structured, well-supervised atmosphere where kids are led through sessions of drills, demonstrations and discussions on all aspects of sports and business. The Foundation stresses the importance of sportsmanship and a positive attitude in sports, in business, and in life. It is Christian’s personal goal that each child leave his events as a better athlete and, more importantly, a better person.
Ontario Mills Group Registration
If you are part of a group of 7 or more participants attending the Ontario Mills 5k/10k Walk/Run, you may be eligible for a $5 discount off of each individual group participant’s registration fee.
Simply have your group administrator fill out the form below and submit it to us for review. If accepted, we will issue the administrator a unique registration code that can be distributed amongst the individual participants in your group. This code can be entered during the registration checkout process to receive the discount.
The group registration discount requires that there be at least 7 or more participants in your group and the number of discounts applied will be limited by that group size. If your group fails to register at least 7 people by race day, each member of the group that is registered will be required to pay the difference of the discount price before being allowed to race.
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the discount process.
Okoye Youth Sports Club
After almost three decades, Christian Okoye Foundation is finally going to Nigeria, where above described services for children in our Objective is badly needed. In Nigeria, there are no youth league of any sport, inter school sports have completely diminished from the days of Christian Okoye.
In June of 2017, The Christian Okoye Foundation will kick off the first Youth Sports Program in Nigeria, dedicated to developing young athletes in three different sports; Soccer, the number one sport in Nigeria and the world, Baseball, a completely new sport, and Football (Gridiron), to accomplish these goals. Altogether, we will be starting with a little over 200 kids, 70 kids, in each sport. Expanding to two more cities in 2018. Lagos (biggest city in Nigeria) and Abuja (The capital of Nigeria)
SOCCER: The soccer part of this program will start the first part of June, Soccer is the easiest to start because it’s the main stay in Nigeria. We will start with kids ages 12 to 15 years old. And older kids ages 16 to 18 years old. Coaches for these two categories are already in place and ready to start. 200 is a small because it’s easier to add more kids than to reduce the number of kids, interest in our program is extremely high.
FOOTBALL: The second part of our program is Football (gridiron). I am planning to take a number of friends, former players and maybe some current players to Nigeria, to help teach the kids the most basic things about football. We will start with no pads or helmets for a while, just to let them get used to the schemes first. We will also teach them flag football, where we feel they will get the most fun on this segment of the program.
BASEBALL: Lastly; we are organizing literatures and videos about baseball to help the kids understand the basics. In September, we plan to invite some baseball coaches to work with the kids, to get them started to play the game. The Christian Okoye Foundation goal is to make Baseball fun for the kids to play, almost as much as they enjoy soccer.
The Christian Okoye Foundation has raised and continue to raise money for this year round program. If your company can support this program with equipment’s, such as shoes, balls, practice and competition jerseys are badly needed.
If you are interested in attending one of our Sports Youth Clubs, please fill out the form below if you are within the ages described above.