Latex Foam Receives Citation

Latex Foam Rubber Products Limited title sponsors of the National under-20 Handball team both men and women yesterday received a citation from the Ghana Handball Federation.

The citation was to show the federation’s appreciation to the company for sponsoring the team to the just ended African Zone E tournament.

The men’s team which won a bronze at the tournament, together with the ladies team and officials of the federation were at the offices of the company to thank the management and staff for their enormous support during the competition.

Mr Kennth Djirasah, the President of the Ghana Handball Federation who led the delegation thanked the company on behalf of the federation for supporting the team throughout the two weeks of the tournament.

“We are happy you were able to help us organise the tournament even with all the pressure on your resources. But for you to have gone out of your way to even help us with jerseys shows the level of your support for handball,” he said.

Mr Djirasah said handball was the future of sports in Ghana and that a lot of efforts were needed to address the various challenges facing the sport to enable the federation to make handball more attractive than what it was at the moment.

He was of the hope that the team would have a prospective relationship with latex foam which would promote and market the sport, adding that “we would be looking forward for your continuous support”.

He promised that the federation would nature the under 20 team to be ambassadors for the sport so to promote interest of Senior High students.

Mr Jamil Mouganie, General Manager of Latex Foam said the company was excited to support the team and hope that there would be partnership in the coming years.

 He congratulated the team for winning bronze in the just ended Africa Zone E tournament but challenged them to win gold in the upcoming ECOWAS competition which would commence on June 15.

“Latex foam has been supporting all forms of sports for some time now because we believe sports go a long way in opening the mind of individuals and not only formal education,” he said.

He added that sports was a very important form of education and that it teaches team spirit, discipline and promotes good health both in the body and in mind.

Mr Mouganie said handball was an equally important sport like football and needed to be marketed to get to the standard it has attained in Europe.

He promised that the company would continue to support of the federation to promote the sport in the country.