Rael “Nyte” Otieno is a former Kenya international field hockey player (2001–2004) and passionate philanthropist who founded the Tunza Sports Academy in 2018. Motivated by her own journey out of poverty, she founded Tunza Sports Academy with the mission of breaking the cycle of poverty in rural Kenya by using high-performance sports ,especially field hockey and boxing as a platform for educational empowerment, community development, and youth mentorship .