Through their Clifton International
Sports Management, the Sheikh
COMMONWEALTH
brothers attracted one of England’s
best cricket coaches, Tim Boon. Tim
offered free coaching skills to the
Ugandan U15 boys team and ladies
Food and Crafts Fair
team. This was such a splendid
opportunity for the Ugandan cricket
fraternity to host the Leicestershire
cricket club coach. Tim was
impressed by the level of potential
talent among the youngsters, which,
he said to them, could lead them to
professional cricketing.
Khalid’s visit to Uganda exhibited a
priceless love for Uganda and Africa
at large to which he says “Britain
is our adopted home, but Uganda
shall always remain part of our
heritage because this is where my
late mother is buried, so that makes
the domestic chores and are also responsible
it our motherland. This is real home
T
he Commonwealth Food and Crafts
Fair, held annually in London in for food production and processing. It is still
aid of the Commonwealth Countries very common for them to be married off at an
League Education Fund, gives people an early age, thereby practically writing off the
“The way to go is
opportunity to sample foods from around potential that they had to become virtually
collaboration with the
the Commonwealth countries, and to see anything in life.
western world for easy
and purchase typical handicrafts, clothes,
jewellery and fresh fl owers from the various So far, the Fund has sponsored some 2000
knowledge and technology
nations. girls from over 30 countries. These fortunate
transfer. You can have the
girls have thereby received the opportunity to
The numerous stalls offer fragrant and exotic fulfi l their ambitionS and potential, broaden
best idea in world but if you
cuisine to tease the most seasoned palates. their horizon and become meaningful
do not have the passion Teas, coffees, and punches transport one’s contributors to their society and their country
and technology to deploy
mind to warm, sunny and far away lands. at large. There are across developing nations
untold stories of girls - and boys - who
the idea, then it will remain
The equally warm participants at the fair are came from very poor backgrounds, and who
just that........and idea”
ever ready to welcome the strolling visitors transformed themselves into outstanding
Khalid Sheikh
and to unreservedly tell them about the citizens through the power of education.
beauty of their country and why they should They also often become strong advocates
consider visiting during their next holiday. of universal access to education.
coming for us and we bring with
But the fair is not all about sampling food and Many of the sponsored girls become
us the knowledge and expertise
spending money on gifts. The much more doctors, teachers, lawyers or choose a career
that will potentially change the
meaningful aim behind the event is to raise in telecommunications, IT, tourism, the
way African food products are
funds for the CCL Education Fund, which environment to name just a few. The girls
processed and packaged”.
sponsors the education of girls all around the have become powerhouses of knowledge for
globe. The Fund was set up in the 1960’s to their immediate families and their community.
“Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi
help girls complete their secondary or high They have become the undeniable reason
& Martin Luther King all had a
school level education. why girls must be educated as much as the
dream and it turned into reality.
boys. Their success should be a wake-up call
Every African must have a dream.
The girls who wish to be sponsored must for their nations, at all levels of society, to get
Our dream in the UK fl ourished into
complete a thorough application form and, rid of the archaic cultural belief of what a girl
reality, and now we bring this same
if they are chosen for sponsorship, their should and should not do.
vision and dream to Africa.”
progress is closely monitored. For most
of the girls, the sponsorship is a godsend Education is the right of every citizen of our
which they are very grateful for. They are world. Women have proved time and again,
BUY AFRICAN BUILD
not only proud to have been chosen, but they that when they become educated, they can
AFRICA
very often share what they learn at school make a massive difference at global level.
Khalid Sheikh and Clifton Packaging
with other members of their family. They at One needs only to look at the fi rst woman
Group was hosted by COSNA PALMS INN last can make concrete plans for the future president of Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
in conjunction with PRIME SOUNDS +256
and some of them, recognising the value of of Liberia, who is transforming an entire
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sponsorship, already plan to help other girls, nation from the bottom up. An uneducated
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once they are in a fi nancial position to do so. girl is a very tragic and unjustifi ed loss to
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