Standard Chartered’s ‘Go Forward’ team goes to Jaffna
Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:00
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Standard Chartered’s Go Forward team recently took the ‘Go Forward’ soccer camp to Jaffna. More than 270 boys and girls, between the ages of 8 and 15, participated in this camp with great enthusiasm. MP Namal Rajapakse graced the event as did members of Standard Chartered’s leadership team.
In addition to coaching soccer skills, the camps are also a forum in which aspects of financial literacy are shared with attendees, as part of the bank’s ‘Here for Good’ brand promise which strives to provide platforms from which economic capability is developed for the future.
Colin Pawley, Head of Origination and Client Coverage, Standard Chartered Bank, who was also present in Jaffna, said: “It was a truly wonderful experience for us all to see so many of Jaffna’s youth participate so energetically in the camp. The cumulative figure of such youth afforded the opportunity to access financial literacy as well as soccer skills is now more than 800. We are proud of the benefit our partnership with Liverpool Football Club (LFC) to discover soccer talent and afford opportunities for financial literacy to inner city communities has been able to provide to growing the nation’s youth.”
At this soccer camp held in Jaffna, a girls’ team was selected and its members will vie for a place on the Sri Lanka Go Forward Team, which will comprise the best of all the players selected from the soccer camps. The handpicked youth will receive special coaching every weekend to further improve their soccer skills, as well as opportunities to participate in tournaments. The Sri Lanka Go Forward Team will thereafter play matches against school and club teams.
Standard Chartered’s Go Forward initiative is facilitated with the collaboration of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka and Thaarunyata Hetak. ‘Go Forward’ is an initiative embarked on by the bank in partnership with Liverpool Football Club (LFC), which Standard Chartered has sponsored since July 2010. Since becoming sponsors, the bank has teamed up with LFC to raise awareness and funds for avoidable blindness and visual impairment in addition to its collaboration on the Go Forward initiative.
