Day 7: Girls Battle Sunshine Queens On Friendly Match, Earn A Goal Against The Professional Team
.. we’ve discovered raw talents from BeMore Team – Sunshine Queens Manager
The climax of activities for the 7th day of the ongoing two weeks Bemore Summer Boot Camp 4Girlsnaija, was the football friendly match between the newly discovered footballers of Bemore Empowered Foundation, and the almighty Sunshine Queens, also known as Betty Babes.
The match, which took place at the playfield of Mabest Academy, Oke-Ijebu the host venue of the Summer Boot Camp, saw the Bemore Team scoring a goal in an unexpected manner that got spectators amazed.
Less than 15 minutes to the opening of the match, BeMore team scored a goal against the professional football team by a 2022 Bemore participant from the School of the Hearing impaired, Miss Ibukun Joy.
Ibukun’s football skill was discovered last year when she defied shame and courageously signified interest to join the football team.
Giving his overview assessment of the Girls’ performance, the Team Manager of Sunshine Queens, Mr. Odogun Kehinde, attested to the excellent performance exhibited by the Girls despite that they’ve not gone through any professional training.
He affirmed that: ”I can boldly say that we have some raw talents”; and expressed readiness to take the discovered Girls to the Football Academy for adequate training to sharpen their skill and become professionals.
He, however, expressed concern about the possibility of the two hearing impaired participants who demonstrated excellent performance in footballing to move forward due to their challenge, but was optimistic they could be enrolled in another sporting activity.
Earlier on, Girls were taught how to conduct Breast Self-Examination, BSE, a breast cancer early detection strategy, with the use of the popular SEKEM dance, a fun-approach devised by Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria, BRECAN, also founded by the wife of Ondo State Governor, Chief Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu.
The session, which was led the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Gender Research and Documentation, Mrs Temitope Daniyan, who doubles as BRECAN National Vice-President, exposed the Girls to the best way women can quickly detect unusual changes in their breasts in order to prevent needless death of women due to breast cancer disease.
The day’s activities also included making of home-made detergents and disinfectants like Liquid Soap, Izal and Bleach.
Story Credit: Mary Agidi
Special Assistant to the Governor on Media (Office of the First Lady)
📸 Saidu Abdulrahman & Gbenga Fasakin
August 20, 2023
