Boxer Supports 2 Schools

Commey wiith the pupil and officials of Odartey Lamptey JHS

International Boxing Federation (IBF) Africa Lightweight champion Richard Commey has presented sporting items worth thousands of cedis to two schools in the capital.

The beneficiary schools – Private Odartey Lamptey Memorial 2 JHS School and Accra Sempe 1 Boys Primary – both at James Town in Accra, each received 10 footballs manufacture by Alive and Kicking, five skipping ropes, five gloves and five bandages.

Commey, also the national Lightweight champion and a resident of James Town, pointed out after the presentation that he believed sporting talents abound in the area, hence the gesture.

'Boxing has made me what I am today, but I would like to encourage you to take your studies very seriously. Combining the two will take you further than where I want to get, and probably make you better than myself,' said Commey.

Preceding the donation, the boxer, now an ambassador of Alive and Kicking, an African social enterprise and UK charity that manufactures sports balls in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia, toured the factory site of Alive and Kicking at Spintex Road.

The boxer, in the company of the president of Streetwise Promotions Michael Amo Bediako, his trainer Carl Lokko of Bronx Gym, some officials of Street Wise and Chris Roe, Country Director of Alive and Kicking Ghana, were taken around the site to have first-hand information about how footballs are manufactured from stock to the finishing stage.

Amoo Bediako expressed the conviction that not every child was intellectually brilliant and that most were gifted in the area of sports, hence his close association with Alive and Kicking.

Alive and Kicking is an outfit that creates jobs for adults, providing balls for children and promoting health education through sports.

By Kofi Owusu Aduonum