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Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter
IN its quest to promote healthy lifestyles among local athletes, a medical aid insurer, Medical Aid Society of Central Africa (MASCA), has pledged to support the growth and development of basketball in the country.
MASCA donated branded kit, bags, tracksuits and water bottles to the boys and girls Under-16 national teams. Masca chief executive officer Douglas Bramsen promised more sponsorship packages for other national teams in future.
“Our aim is to direct our sponsorship towards a healthier living and one of the ways to encourage a healthier living is through sport. We encourage the young generation to live a healthy life through sport and by eating healthy. Sport plays a huge role in healthy living. Our support for basketball has just begun and hopefully you see more sponsorship as we move out of this pandemic. In the past we have sponsored bike rides and runs. Soon we will be looking to help other sport codes,” said Bramsen.
Basketball Union of Zimbabwe president Joe Mujuru said: “We want to thank Masca for assisting us during this Covid-19 era. It’s not easy to find corporates which want to pour money into sport during this period. This is big for us and comes as testimony that basketball is alive and the work to improve the game does not stop because there is Covid-19.”
Meanwhile, Buz will hold an extraordinary congress in December to amend the union’s constitution and align it with the International Basketball Federation.
BUZ will appoint a review committee to lead the amendment process and the proposals will be sent to provinces first before being tabled at the extraordinary congress. — @inncoentskizoe
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