Saturday 7 September 2013

12 schools to benefit from Airtel ARS goals for education

Following the introduction of
special education incentive for every goal
scored at the just concluded National
Championship of the Airtel Rising Stars
Under-17 Football National Competition by
leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria, twelve primary schools in local
communities across the six geo-political
zones of the country have been chosen as
beneficiaries of the initiative. The company had offered $100 for every
goal scored during match regulation time at
the National Finals where 192 players
comprising 12 male and female teams
drawn from six zones across the nation
slugged it out for the trophies. At the keenly contested tournament, a total
of 20 goals were scored from 14 matches
played by both the male and female teams. Combined efforts from Team Kaduna
yielded 5 goals to tie with Team Port
Harcourt. Ibadan teams secured 4 goals,
while Lagos netted a total of 3 goals. Enugu boys and girls recorded 2 goals
apiece, while the representatives of the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) trailed the
rest with a single goal. According to Airtel’s Director of Corporate
Communications and CSR, Emeka Oparah,
the respective team Coaches will receive the
aggregated monetary value due their teams
to purchase books and other relevant
school items for donation to the pupils of the selected schools in their domain. Oparah said all the donations pan-Nigeria
will take place on resumption of the new
academic year in September. Said he: “The Goal-for-Education” initiative
is intended to complement what we are
doing in Adopt-a-School programme, our
CSR platform. The idea is to send the
monetary value of the goals scored at the
Airtel National finals and donate it to selected schools to open doors to under-
privileged children who ordinarily would
have no access to quality education. Airtel Nigeria is passionate about laying a
solid educational foundation for Nigerian
children.” The ARS National U-17 Championship finals
which held penultimate weekend at the
Agege stadium saw the Port Harcourt male
and female teams dust their rivals to the
trophies. The Port Harcourt female team emerged
2-1 victorious over their opponents from
Ibadan to retain the trophy for the third
season. In the same vein, the male team took off
from where their female counterpart left
off as they reclaimed the trophy they last
won two seasons ago at Campos Square by
up-staging the Ibadan team 2-0. In the third place matches played earlier,
Kaduna defeated FCT Queens 5-4 to retain
the trophy they won last season in the
female category while team Lagos won their
first ever ARS medal 5-3 against their
Kaduna counterparts. The Airtel Rising Stars U-17 Tourney, in its
third year running, is a pan African initiative
of Airtel Africa, designed to provide support
for the development

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