They may be known for Casino's and Offshore oil concession, but this morning the Princess Casino Group handed over a ten thousand dollar cheque to Special Olympics Belize as a part of giving back to the community.
The money will be put towards sending a national Football team of Special Olympic athletes to participate in this year's World Summer Games - which will be held in Athens Greece. Here's more.
Necip Karayusef, Executive General Coordinator, Princess Casino
"We always like to help the children, our group always did that, we help the orphans, we help the children. Our hope is that other companies will do the same. This is our hope so what I think is that the children of Belize is the future of Belize so people have to realize that and help them. The priority is for children and we like to help them. These other companies have to come together to help these children. The children of Belize need help and these big companies if they do that they will be bless."
Allan Auil, Chairman of Special Olympics
"This is actually going towards our national football team that will attend the world summer games in June and early July. We have been working with a football team for the past three years and this year is World Summer Games year for Special Olympics. In the past we have always attended with a small contingent of track and field athletes, but this year we want to send a football team and it's going to be all the way in Greece in Athens and so you can imagine the cost of air travel to get there. It's going to be quite expensive so this funding that we receive today from the Princess group is going to go towards the travel expenses and it's a large portion of that but we still need more but certainly we are very grateful for what the Princess gave us today and it will go a long way towards fulfilling the dreams of our athletes and not only the ones who are travelling and who made the national team but actually the entire group of athletes. All are registered members are going to feel proud when these athletes came back with the accomplishments we know that they will have in Greece and it really is going to unite our communities, our athletes, our families. It's going to go a long way in helping all persons in Belize with intellectual disabilities ."
The football team which will be travelling to Greece this summer has been training for the event for 3 years.
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