NICO/ Safeway gives kits for youth

FOOTBALL and golf kits valued in excess of J$5.6 million were recently presented by NICO - Jamaican distributors for Safeway products - to several organisations that are managing youth development programmes in Jamaica.

The donation comprised 40,000 football kits and 3,000 Junior and Senior Golf kits and the Institute of Sports, the Jamaica Golf Association and the SuperClubs/Tiger Woods Foundation Summer Golf Programme for Youth are among the entities with which Nico/Safeway have formed major partnerships in order to ensure that the sports equipment impact the greatest numbers of Jamaican youth.

The Institute of Sports received 25,000 of the football kits - each comprising a football, a pump, gloves and shin pads - for use in sports programmes that the organisation runs in primary and junior high schools across Jamaica.

Another 11,000 football kits were donated to Montego Bay-based organisations - with 5,000 of the kits going to the St. James Football Association; an additional 5,000 going to approximately 18 primary, all-age, junior high and high schools in St. James; and another 1,000 to the Police Youth Clubs in Montego Bay.

Public Defender Howard Hamilton also received 500 football kits for use at Boys Town, and in the communities of Majesty Pen, Fletchers Land, Craig Town and Jones Town in Kingston, as well as Content Gardens in Ocho Rios.

Managing Director of NICO Distributors, Robert Joseph, in announcing the donation in Montego Bay, revealed that the effort was part of a Sports Summer programme undertaken by Safeway under the theme "Keeping the Kids Safe this Summer".

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