Ababu lauds DP World’s game-changing support for Kenyan junior golfers
By Lucky Oluoch, November 7, 2023The Junior Golf Foundation Kenya (JGF) has recently received a generous donation of 24,000 golf balls from DP World, the logistics provider, and title partner of the DP World Tour.
Notably, this commendable contribution is part of the DP World ‘second life’ container initiative, an endeavor dedicated to collecting used and unwanted golf balls for the advancement of grassroots golf and the overall expansion of the sport.
The essential supply of professional tour balls, gifted to the JGF, was made possible through the support of the European Tour group’s Challenge Tour, who generously contributed a significant number of golf balls following an event in the United Kingdom.
This gesture is expected to significantly enhance the quality of junior golfing experiences across Kenya. Ababu Namwamba, the CS for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy, and Sports, commended the initiative as a key aspect of the government’s commitment to promoting sports from the grassroots level upward.
He added: “We currently have Michael Karanga ranked 83rd amateur in the World and such initiatives from our partners like the DP World and the European Tourwill help us have more Karanga’s in Kenya and take the continent and the World by storm.”