Milo fortifies Police Youth Clubs’ football programme

Facey Trading, through its Milo brand, last Saturday boosted the Police Youth Club’s football programme with a generous donation of four footballs.

The brief handing over ceremony was staged at the Petit Bordel Secondary School’s hard court.{{more}}

Apart from the balls, the participants in the programme received knap-sacks in which to carry their football gear.

Speaking at the ceremony, head of the Grassroot Tennis Club Grant Connell challenged the SVGFF’s president Venold Coombs to better the contribution of Milo and Facey Trading.

“I am calling on Coombs to give the programme 15 or 20 balls,” Connell said.

Coombs, at every football forum, boasts of receiving 1,000 footballs from the US Soccer Federation.

The Police Youth Clubs were set up as an initiative of the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force in September 2000, through the efforts of then retired Inspector of Police Arden Tannis.

The first Police Youth Club was established in Barrrouallie, beginning with five boys, but later swelled to over 100.

Among the objectives of the clubs are to establish programmes that will improve the relationship between young people, the police and the wider community; provide the means for training the youths in sports, drama, firefighting, drills, first aid, personal development, and swimming and life-saving techniques.

Additionally, the clubs aim to develop the mental, educational, physical, emotional and spiritual capacities of members so that they may grow to full maturity as productive citizens.

The Police Youth Clubs also network with other organizations to frame programmes to equip young people with skill, to help them become more responsible.