Watson Karuma Muiruri

Watson Karuma has over ten years of experience as a journalist. He currently serves as Sports Editor with the Nation Media Group’s broadcasting division NTV and was recently awarded the best Sports Reporting Award from the Media council of Kenya for a piece he did on Kenyan football. His main focus is development-based sports, which seeks to improve the lives of youth. He is a member of a small football team in Kiambu County and works with young players by providing them with guidance and counseling sessions as part of their weekend training program. Watson Karuma Muiruri has also leased a small piece of land where the yet-to-be-employed players can practice farming. Watson encourages the young players to take up farming, which has helped sustain their livelihood and kept them away from societal vices. He hopes that the new knowledge and networks gained through the Washington Fellowship will help him further develop his youth club project into a sustainable youth academy.