Airtel
Nigeria has introduced a motivating factor of its Rising Stars national
championship with $100, about N15,000 per goal scored, which would be shared
with charity, reveals DigitalSENSE
Business News.
Airtel
says its offering $100 for every goal scored during match regulation time at
the championship, which entails that at the end of the Championship, a
participating team will receive the aggregated monetary value for the number of
goals it scored during regular match time with the liberty to choose which
charity in home state or zone gets the donation.
The
Goal-for-Education initiative is aimed at furthering the company’s Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) spread while enhancing the quality of living among
the less privileged across its African markets.
Director
of Corporate Communication and CSR, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Emeka Oparah, said it
is one of the tie-back benefits of the Airtel Rising Stars Tournament which
focuses on discovering talented football youngsters and giving them
opportunities to hone their skills and become renowned stars.
He
also said that the CSR goal of Airtel is primarily targeted at helping the less
privileged using every credible platform such as the ARS provides.
“We
believe the goal-for-education, being a CSR-initiative, will further boost our
efforts at achieving improved living conditions for this set of people among
us. We are promoting a culture of integration that allows the players to live
for others, using their talents. We also hope it will motivate the young boys
and girls to produce for all lovers of the game the best of grassroots football
for which the ARS is known,” he said.
Meanwhile, 192 players comprising 12 male and
female teams drawn from six zones across the nation will be featuring at the
national championship where they will attempt to beat one another to the crowns
and the tickets to participate in the week-long African Championship slated
also for Lagos later in September.
The teams qualified for the three-day championship
after featuring in the zonal championship phase where they had to see off
strong competition for the national finals tickets from other equally good
teams in their zones. They include Kaduna, Abuja, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Ibadan
and Lagos, all of which will be featuring both in the male and female
categories.
The Lagos National
Championship will be decided inside the main bowl of the Agege Township Stadium
which also hosted it last year. Aside determining the national champions, the
championship will double as a qualifier for the ARS inter-country championship
slated for Lagos next month.
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 of football talents across
African markets.
It is aimed at discovering talented
students (male and female) of secondary school age and providing them the
opportunity to polish their football skills and develop into renowned
stars.
As part of the tournament, top teams from 17 African countries will compete against each other for the title of Airtel Rising Stars African Champion, scheduled for Nigeria in September.
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