A brilliant Egba young footballer Michael Adedokun (19 years old) has been awarded a scholarship by Dr Dimeji Oganla who sponsored the Africa-USA (AUSA) College Soccer Recruitment Tour program to Ęgbaland for the first time facilitated by an NGO BAAWA Initiative.
The NGO has a core responsibility of partnering with government agencies to empower the indigenes of Ogun State and also serve as an auxiliary to expeditiously alleviate, or better still reduce the poverty rate imminent in the system.
In this respect, BAAWA Initiative was able to partner with the Africa-USA Soccer recruitment tour domiciled in Chicago Illinois, to organize a Soccer trial and recruitment which created opportunities for Ogun State indigenes to study in some American Universities, in addition to playing professional soccer under the BAAWA/AUSA 100% scholarship scheme.
During the soccer trials fourteen (14) were picked and were immediately enrolled for SAT EXAM but only one, Michael Adedokun passed. He is the only one travelling to America now
Oluwakemi Adesina: He’s going to Dayton College Ohio to study physical and health course and also play for the college football team, adding that he will be paid for playing for the college team and also enjoy 100 percent scholarship
Giving the program’s opening remark under the banner “Caring for the Needy: A woman of substance fetes the needy” the Director General of BÁAWÀ INITIATIVE Mrs Oluwakemi Adesina stated that ‘Love is felt only when it is extended towards others, and that one of the most beneficial deeds at this festive season (December 26 2020) is to extend the happiness and joy to the less-privileged in the society’
The program included feeding/caring for the less privilege and the soccer tour trial.
She enjoined the rich and highly privilege in the society to “refrain from criticizing those who give their time and money to charitable causes. “Charity knows no geographic boundaries. If you’re not a part of the solution, you should not be the problem either”, she enthused.
“We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well,” she added.
