3-day festival to launch Emmanuel Adebayor Foundation

in Accra June 29

It is official. Sportsinghana.com can exclusively report

that Togo star footballer Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor will soon launch his charity

foundation in Accra in a 3-day festival beginning June 29.

The official unveiling of the Emmanuel Adebayor Foundation

and what it aims to achieve will span three days from Friday June 29 to Sunday July

1 and Adebayor has invited many of his Europe based teammates and friends who

will come down to share in his joy.

The Manchester City hitman has already engineered several

charity works across West Africa including commissioning a water project in

Ghana for the Upper West towns of Hamile and Koro exactly this same time last

year. Now he intends to fulfil his promise of more charity extended to several

less privileged people all over Africa through the foundation.

According to Adebayor’s local publicist, Madam Foussena Djagba,

the event begins with a dinner dance at the residence of Adebayor in East

Legon, Accra where diplomats, decision makers, people in showbiz, media across

the globe as well as top footballers will all be present.

This event, she insists, is strictly by invitation with a

strict dress code of white shirts, black shoe and bow tie. The night is billed

to begin with cocktail, followed by a photo gallery session before dinner. A mini

documentary of Sheyi’s previous charity work will also be screened.

Day two is Saturday June 30 which will begin with a beach

soccer game between an Adebayor side against Africa Media before everyone

convenes in the evening once again at the footballer’s East Legon residence for

a musical concert dubbed Togo versus Ghana.

It will be a soiree el a Hawaiian featuring exotic food and

musical concert and pits Ghana’s famous ‘Azonto’ dance against the ‘Koolcatche’

which like the Azonto in Ghana, is also in vogue in Togo at the minute and is

even done in churches. Dress code once again is strictly anything white.

The climax is on Sunday July 1st, Ghana’s

Republic Day which’s programme has been dubbed ‘Stay Fit with Ade’ at his

residence featuring various games amid a pool party, badminton, bag race, all

the games you can name. Going with a dress code of sports wear, a brunch (late

lunch) of African traditional dishes will then be served to climax events

marking the formal launch of the Emmanuel Adebayor Foundation.

Foussena Djagba explains that Adebayor plans to make it a two-in-one

event by staging a house-warming party to also formally commission his

residence in Ghana. “He is delighted to have acquired a house in Ghana and

wants to recognize the privilege Ghana has given him,” Madam Djagba stated.

She added: Ghana is more than his home and he has not even

been to Togo yet since returning on holidays. Ghana will also be privileged of

course that his Foundation will be launched here in Accra.”Credit: