14 Nov 2016

Joy Foundation has launched a phone-in radio competition for young boys and girls to win football boots in effort to tap talent from grassroots.

The competition entails calling during Radio Botswana sport programmes and answer questions.

Speaking at the competition launch recently, Joy Foundation, founder, Joy Setshedi said they had 50 football boots to deliver to winners through BotswanaPost.

She said the foundation, in its endeavour to continue with helping in the development of football, intended to donate at least 2 000 football boots by end on March next year.

“Currently we are giving them 50 and we will give away 100 in December,” she said.

Joy Foundation, she said was mainly focusing on developing young players from the age of seven to 18.

Thus, she said their plan was to set up an academy given that they already had land in Mochudi for such a project.

The foundation, she said prides itself in the active role it played in the community as well as the commitment to social investment across Botswana.

“This has been achieved over the years through tournaments, coaching clinics and donations of sports equipment to various sporting codes,” she said.

Meanwhile, she noted that November was special to them because they were celebrating five years of existence.

Botswana Football Association president, Maclean Letshwiti thanked Joy Foundation for finding it prudent to take part in football development.

Letshwiti said football had, of late gone through a rough patch and therefore any donation aimed at developing the game would always be motivating and promising.

He indicated that part of their mandate as the association was grassroots development, which he said was an expensive exercise.

Further, he said grassroots development was not only their responsibility as association alone, and thus required stakeholder participation for it to work.

“Very soon the technical team will be unveiling their grassroots development programme. Its massive and Joy Foundation has set the standard,” he said. BOPA