STOKE CITY'S globetrotting Community Coach Warren Leat is back on his travels again . . . having flown out to Kenya to spend a week delivering the Premier Skills Course Phase Two.

Following the success of a similar visit to Senegal in the Autumn, Warren has joined up with Adam Lea from Portsmouth and Head Coach Gareth Prosser from Wolves for this latest trip.

He will be keeping stokecityfc.com in touch with the whole experience of coach education in Kenya on a daily basis. Here is his account of day one:

Kenya Day One

After an eight and a half hour flight, we have arrived in Nairobi for the Premier Skills Phase Two course. This is very different from the Phase One course last October in Senegal. Phase One was delivered mostly by the coaches from Stoke City and the Premier League, with emphasis on how to plan, organise and deliver coaching sessions, as well as classroom sessions on the theory of coaching. So to begin with, I will tell you what the Phase Two course is all about.

For the Phase Two course, there are 24 participants who have been selected from the Phase One courses in Kenya, Botswana, Uganda and Malawi. These participants have demonstrated their commitment to use the skills and experiences from the Phase One course and apply them to their own community projects. This course here in Nairobi will develop and enhance the skills already gained, and begin to develop their knowledge and understanding of how Football is used as a tool for tackling important social issues.

The aim of this course is for these participants to become major figures within their organisations, and who will be responsible for developing and implementing football-based programmes within their communities. Furthermore this course will develop them to become mentors themselves that will enable them to pass their skills onto others within their organisations to further develop their projects. A major difference to this course is that the participants will be more involved in the running of the workshops, with Gareth, Adam and myself playing a facilitation role.

Today saw the arrival of the participants and an informal meet and great dinner took place between the participants from the four countries and the staff. This was a valuable event as we were able to meet the participants, who all are English speaking and to break the ice for the course which starts tomorrow. However due to flight delays the Malawi participants were due to get into Nairobi at 2am, so we will meet them tomorrow.

The course will be conducted at the Moi International Sports Centre, with the exception of the opening ceremony which will be held at the British High Commissioner's residence tomorrow afternoon.