NDC aspirant donates books, footballs to communities

Aspiring NDC Parliamentary contestant Kofi B. Kukubor has donated 44 footballs to 20 Community Football Clubs in the Keta Constituency in a drive to promote sports among the youth.

Kofi Kukubor, whose central theme is ‘skills development for livelihoods and employment generation’, urged the youth to be disciplined and respectful if they want to excel in the global sport.

He said the donations were not for recreational purposes but to serve as tools of development.

Mr Kukubor explained that “football is also an avenue for employment and self-development for the youth.”

Mr Kukubor, himself a sportsman and a hockey player, asked the youth to avoid indiscipline and alcoholism, if they intend taking the sport to a professional level.

He noted that: “alcohol and sports were bad bed-fellows for any serious sportsman.”

Mr Kukubor said the donation would serve as a revival of the football league for clubs within the Constituency.

He called on the business and corporate communities to support the league and make it competitive to help unearth talents from the communities to be groomed into world-class stars.

Beneficiary community clubs include, Island Stars FC and Young Islanders Stars, Atsiavi Glime; Liberty FC, Lion Stars FC, and Challenger FC (colts).

The aspirant said each football club in the Constituency would be given two footballs.

In another development, the aspiring Parliamentary candidate has donated over 220 books to 11 schools and libraries within the Keta Constituency, aimed at promoting literacy and reading among school children.

Beneficiary community schools include Vodza R.C. Basic, Adzido Xose Gbantor L.A Basic, Kedzi A.M.E Zion Basic, and Keta E.P Basic.

The books are being distributed to all JHS and SHS schools in the constituency in commemoration of two important international events – World Literacy Day 2015, which fell on Wednesday, September 8 and the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which ends in 2015.

He said his ultimate objective was to “introduce culturally relevant reading materials to children and find innovative solutions to the wide-scale failure of education in our communities.”