2010 Chiawa Mini World Cup
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TEXT FROM ARTICLE IN ZAMBEZI DAILY NEWSPAPER by Robinson Kunda:
Zambezi Airlines have donated two air-tickets worth US$1000 (about K5 million) to Explore Africa to enable it to send two people (from the Lower Zambezi Chiawa community) to South Africa to watch the 2010 World Cup.
Zambezi Airlines chief executive officer Don McDonald presented the tickets at a press briefing in Lusaka yesterday.
McDonald said Zambezi Airlines is proud to partner with Explore Africa in sending two people from Chiawa to go and watch the World Cup.
He said the gesture is part of the company’s policy of paying back to the community.
“What you guys (Explore Africa) are doing in lower Zambezi is very good. You are involving the community and that is something very close to my heart,” McDonald said.
He urged Explore Africa to continue with their work in Chiawa.
McDonald pledged to continue supporting the communities through various programs.
And Explore Africa President Cherri Briggs said her company wants the people of Chiawa to feel close to the World Cup which will be held in Africa for the first time.
Briggs said Explore Africa is grateful to Zambezi Airlines for agreeing to provide tickets for two people.
She said most of the people in Chiawa will only be hearing about the World Cup and they will not have a chance to watch it, not even on television because some of them were underprivileged.
“What we are doing is that we have 16 teams competing in a tournament. We will get two players from the team that wins the tournament. We will do a raffle and the two players that will be picked will go to South Africa to watch the World Cup,” Briggs said.
And Explore Africa representative Richard Wilson said the tournament has received overwhelming response from various villages in Lower Zambezi.
Wilson said the tournament has provided fun for the people in the area.
“We are not sure if the people that win the trip will know how to speak English so we will also send a third person who will be an interpreter,” he said.
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