ASK Foundation Sports Programme

AFRICAN SPORTS KIDS FOUNDATION UNDER 13 FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

KICKS OFF SATURDAY

The African Sports Kids (ASK)

Foundation, an NGO founded to support children who have football skills that

need to be developed will organize a special tournament from September 28 to

December 28, 2013 at the Kawukudi Park.

According to Mustapha Mohammed, CEO

of the ASK Foundation, the event is under the theme “sports for education” would

be for kids under 13 years of age and the 12 week competition open to other

communities would be an avenue of empowering the children to be disciplined,

respectful, bold and intelligent.

He said the major objective of the

ASK Foundation is to bridge the gap between those who have and those who do n

ot have but have the interest.

He noted that the tournament wll

create the platform for future stars to be identified abd groomed to become a

real classic suer star.

“We seek to remove all identifiable

barriers that stand in the way of the African kids and their sporting destinies.

Our foundation is the hope to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor and

we hope to guide the kids to reach their goals”.

He expressed that education is the

key to development and the children would be adviced most on education and how

to be civil.

Mustapha Mohammed who is most

passionate about children who do sports hinted that sports is a tool for many

good things and he will use sports to change his community to be better.

As part of the tourament, a clean up

exercise would be conducted in Nima to educate the children on volunteerism.

Mustapha Mohammed disclosed that a

lot of individuals, especially children have expressed interest in the

tournament which would be played on week ends and the Sports Writers

Association of Ghana (SWAG) have been invited as a partner to mobilise the

sports media to cover the event.