Sudanese are a doubt for Euro Union soccer
May 02, 2006
YEI All Stars kids football team from Southern Sudan are stuck with transport difficulties and will fail to participate in the European Union HIV/AIDS Awareness football tournament unless they get assistance.
By Swalley Kenyi and Frank Obonyo
Kids Group A
KKL, TKL Kitgum
TKL Kumi, Burundi Direct
Group B
TKL Gulu, Lira, Luwero
Ligi Ndogo (Kenya)
Group C
TKL IDP camps,
Anti Aids Uganda, TKL Arua,
Friends of Sport (Kenya)
YEI All Stars kids football team from Southern Sudan are stuck with transport difficulties and will fail to participate in the European Union HIV/AIDS Awareness football tournament unless they get assistance.
The Kids League (TKL) director Trevor Dudley, who is organising the tournament, revealed the difficulties the Sudanese are facing at the event launch yesterday.
Burundi Direct, Kenya’s Ligi Ndogo and Friends of Sport are set to join nine local teams from Luwero, Gulu, Kitgum and Arua for the games that start on Friday and climax with the kids’ final at Lugogo on Sunday.
The tournament will also feature a seven-aside curtain-raiser between employees from leading embassies in Uganda. The Ugandan foreign affairs ministry team will be led by state minister Okello Oryem.
“We at the EU have been poor in cultural exchanges. We hope every one will get to interact with and get to talk to children from internally displaced camps,†EU programme officer Uwe Bergmeier said yesterday.
Kids Group A
KKL, TKL Kitgum
TKL Kumi, Burundi Direct
Group B
TKL Gulu, Lira, Luwero
Ligi Ndogo (Kenya)
Group C
TKL IDP camps,
Anti Aids Uganda, TKL Arua,
Friends of Sport (Kenya)
YEI All Stars kids football team from Southern Sudan are stuck with transport difficulties and will fail to participate in the European Union HIV/AIDS Awareness football tournament unless they get assistance.
The Kids League (TKL) director Trevor Dudley, who is organising the tournament, revealed the difficulties the Sudanese are facing at the event launch yesterday.
Burundi Direct, Kenya’s Ligi Ndogo and Friends of Sport are set to join nine local teams from Luwero, Gulu, Kitgum and Arua for the games that start on Friday and climax with the kids’ final at Lugogo on Sunday.
The tournament will also feature a seven-aside curtain-raiser between employees from leading embassies in Uganda. The Ugandan foreign affairs ministry team will be led by state minister Okello Oryem.
“We at the EU have been poor in cultural exchanges. We hope every one will get to interact with and get to talk to children from internally displaced camps,†EU programme officer Uwe Bergmeier said yesterday.