A FIVE-YEAR sponsorship package for the Annual Northern Region Inter-District Basic Schools Sports Festival has been inaugurated in Tamale.
A non-governmental organisation, RICS Charities, provided the facility, which is aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the festival, as well as identifying and harnessing the development of sports talents, particularly among the youth in the region.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees for RICS, Mr Rex Danquah, who announced the package at a press briefing in Tamale, explained that his outfit had already provided four footballs, plaques, trophies and medals for winners of this year's competition.
He, however, declined to mention the total cost of the package and stressed that it would be reviewed from time to time over the five-year period.
Mr Danquah said incentives would be provided for participants who would excel in the competition, while a bursary of GH¢50 would be given to each participant for as long as they continued to strive for excellence.
He indicated that "this incentive will continue up to the university level, as long as the beneficiaries continue to engage in sporting activities and achieve excellence in them".
Mr Danquah noted that his outfit would collaborate with the Ghana Education Service (GES), to rope in the sponsorship package for children who were out of school but had great talents in sports.
That measure, he said, was to enable such less privileged children to get access to quality education, while making sure that they developed their respective sports talents to the highest point.
"Another package is that we are prepared to give Gh¢20 to any pupil who could break 20-year-old records and GH¢10 to those who could break 10-year-old records while GH¢5 would go to any pupil who could break records below 10 years," the chairman added.
According to him, RICS had a plan to open special accounts at some banks, where beneficiary students and pupils could go with their identity cards to facilitate payment of their grants.
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