A CHARITY organisation, the Right to Dream, in collaboration with Vodafone Ghana has embarked on a tour to identify sports talents among underprivileged children in the Tamale metropolis.
The tour is part of a three-year sponsorship package signed between the two organisations in March this year, with the aim to identify and support up to 20 children between the ages of 11 and 14 to realise their full potentials in soccer and education.
Briefing media practitioners in Tamale, the Media Relations Officer of Vodafone, Mr Gordon Wellu, said the package included the provision of Vodafone souvenirs, media awareness, decoration of football pitches with Vodafone paraphernalia and provision of items such as mobile phones, SIM cards and T-shirts for awards.
According to him, Vodafone shared the same vision with the organisation, hence, his outfit’s decision to support that good course.
The Head of Recruitment of the Academy, Mr Joe Mulberry, said the beneficiary children would be offered opportunities to develop their football talents and offered a five-year education scholarship.
According to Mr Mulberry the academy was established in 1999 and had so far produced 88 children who were pursuing higher education as well as playing their professional football in Europe and the United States of America.
He disclosed that five of the second generation of players were from Tamale, while two players from the Metropolis were among the fourth generation of players trained by the academy.
Mr Mulberry acknowledged that Tamale was very “strong in Ghanaian football and we are pleased with the products from the Metropolis so far”.
As part of the tour, awards were given to both players and teams who excelled following a football match played at one of the training pitches at the Tamale Sports Stadium.
For the under 12,the Republicans and the Young Goldfields were given 200 Ghana cedis cash each for emerging winners at the finals of the competition. Each player of the two teams also took home a Vodafone SIM card, five Ghana cedis worth of credit and Vodafone T-shirt.
The runners-up took home 100 Ghana cedis cash, and each player took home one SIM card, 2 Ghana cedis worth of Vodafone credit and a T-shirt.
The best players for the under 12 and under 14 teams received mobile phones, SIM cards and 5 Ghana cedis worth of credit.
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