In 2009 MYDEL established the soccer academy, which targets street children and those from the most vulnerable families in the slum community.

The idea of the soccer academy is to strengthen the children's self-confidence by encouraging them to develop their individual talents, starting from the children's potential resources. Living, training and competing together as a team, enables them furthermore the enhancement of their social skills. In the soccer academy the boys have the opportunity to make the experience of being integrated into a family-like community, where they are accepted with all their personal characteristics. It offers a secure environment, in which they can "train for their future", developing coping strategies and essential life skills. Beneath the training activities, HIV- and drug prevention-activities are part of the MYDEL Soccer Academy's curriculum.

Through this project, up to now MYDEL achieved to mobilise scholarships for 58 boys from private and public donors, which enabled an access into the formal school system. However, to enable a successful integration into the education process, during the time of transition the soccer academy provides pedagogic assistance and the support needed by each individual child.

Aiming on stabilisation and sustainable improvement of living conditions of the most vulnerable groups of the community implies at the same time to take into consideration their social environment. MYDEL considers that an improvement in a long term is only achievable by a systemic working approach, including families and relatives of the direct beneficiaries in the scope of implemented project activities. Therefore, MYDEL has an outreach team of counsellors, which are providing economic skills training and assisting them in setting up small scale businesses. Furthermore the MYDEL team provides psychosocial counselling, encouraging the communities to enhance their problem solving strategies and mobilising  their own fund of resources.

As girls are the most vulnerable group of the slum community, MYDEL developed a program focusing on the empowerment of girls. The girl child program provides a safe space, in which the girls are encouraged to continue their school education, where they have the opportunity to share their experiences and challenges, discuss their topics of interest, develop coping strategies and discover new interests and talents. The program is in the girl's ownership, supported by MYDELs social worker responsible for gender issues. By providing vocational training activities in paper beads production, hairdressing and tailoring as well as economic empowerment, MYDEL is giving them the opportunity to develop new skills. Hence, the girl's self-confidence is strengthened and, at the same time, it helps to increase their financial independence in the future. Furthermore, we offer creative activities such as drama, fine arts, dancing or sports, depending on the girl's interests. In collaboration with Girl Child Network Uganda, MYDEL tries to reintegrate dropped out girls into the school system by offering scholarships.

In terms of community sensitisation MYDEL is working with a drama based approach, using drama as a facilitation- and communication tool.

The MYDEL Dance and Drama Group was founded in 2009 and comprises of 25 members, most of whom themselves have previously been beneficiaries of MYDEL's programs. It is facilitated by 3 trainers and   reaches out to several vulnerable communities in and around Kampala on a regular basis. Using creative methods in order to increase community awareness enables to address topics as HIV/AIDS, hygiene and health matters in general, human rights and child-protection, as well as gender issues.

Using drama as a methodology enables to address delicate, tabooed issues in a realistic and creative way without embarrassing the target group or violating cultural norms.