Local Volleyball teams in the Western and Western North Regions have received various forms of support through Betway’s community support program, Betway Up, which was introduced with the aim of uplifting sports teams in Ghana.
Twelve teams from the regions benefited from the event; the teams comprise Abroso VC from Prestea, Shama VC, Possible Hands, and nine others which were drawn from towns in the Region.
They were taken through training sessions on sports science, coaching and fitness and received equipment donations from Betway. The equipments included balls, shin guards, bibs among others.
The community outreach in the Western Region is the latest activity in the ‘Betway Up’ initiative; it extended support to teams in its inaugural program this month.
Betway ambassador and former Black Stars captain, Stephen Appiah, with support from Former National head coach the Volleyball team Eric Antwi, took participants through a session on ‘Coaching Advice and Training” while Dr. George Chidi led the session on “Sports Science”.
Speaking to Beachfmonline, country Marketing Manager for Betway Ghana, Kwabena Oppong-Nkrumah, emphasized the bookmaking giant’s commitment to promoting sports development in the country.
“For us at Betway, we’ve always believed in supporting sports development, and that has been the main thrust of our CSR activities”.
According to him, the purpose of the program is to empower the various communities in the country.
“A lot of the programs we are doing here today is to empower them at the grassroots. Typically, these projects are only seen at the national team level but we have seen the need to bring it down to the communities, we hope to keep this going and a lot more communities will benefit from this initiative,” he said.
Many other communities are expected to benefit from the “Betway Up” initiative, which is the betting company’s main CSR drive for the year 2021.
Story by Kelvin Danso
