Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) President,Mr. Ben Nunoo Mensah and president of Ghana Rugby Football Union,Mr. Herbert Mensah have donated to the Black Queens at the Mariset Plaza Hotel, Osu ahead of their Tokyo 2020 qualifier against Kenya next month.
Items donated to the team included drinks,water,undisclosed amount of money and sanitary pads.The female Senior team of Ghana have been in camp for the past three weeks preparing for the qualifier against their counterparts from Kenya.
The team advanced to the next stage of Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifiers after easing past the les Panthers of Gabon by 5-0 aggregate.
GOC President, Ben Nunoo Mensah explained the donation was aimed at promoting and motivating the team ahead of the Olympic games qualifiers.
“The Black Queens are playing Olympic qualifier and I happen to be the president of GOC, so I pledged to dowhat ever I can to help them qualify. Those of us in the least-finance sports know the challenges we go through when camping.”
“I spoke to some of the Federations heads, and Ghana Rugby Football Union President, Mr. Herbert Mensah who agreed to help to get some items on behalf of the federations” he added.
Acting Captain of the Black Queens, Priscilla Okyere expressed her gratitude to the Ghana Women’s Rugby team for the donation.
“We are grateful for what they have done for us; it makes us realize that all hope is not lost because honestly we felt we are all alone during this qualifiers. But they have made us know that there are others there thinking about us and we will do all it takes within our powers to qualify”.
“We are more focused on the qualifiers because we want to make history. Olympics has eluded us for years and we are ready to make Ghana proud no matter the problems we are facing”.
“It has not been easy for us, we feel neglected because no one has visited actually not even the money that is due us has been paid. But we are not giving up because we know it will definitely come” she disclosed.
The first leg is scheduled to be played at Accra Sports Stadium on Friday 4th October and the second leg in Kenya on 8th October, 2019.
By: Ayishatu Zakaria Ali
