Corporates unite for common cause
Taking place under the annual MTC Knockout Project umbrella, the initiative is aimed at nation-building and inculcating a culture of unity while raising funds for a yet-to-be-announced charity.
Sports Reporter
WINDHOEK
Yesterday at a press announcement in Windhoek, six corporates, become the first wave of entities to support MTC’s ‘We Race Together’ initiative. Shoprite, Namib Mills, Erongo Marine Enterprise, the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (Bipa), Namport and Namibia Airport Company (NAC) all threw their hats into the ring, with Namib Mills, Shoprite and MTC all registering their participation in the much-anticipated event with N$120 000 each.
Erongo Marine Enterprise pledged N$90 000, while BIPA, NAC and Namport aided the cause with N$30 000 each.
The innovative ‘We Race Together’ initiative, under the annual MTC Knockout Project umbrella, aims to drive towards nation-building, and to inculcate a culture of unity while raising funds for a yet-to-be-announced charity.
MTC’s chief human capital and corporate affairs officer Tim Ekandjo thanked all the corporates that came on board and challenged more to register their participation in the project with a fee of N$30 000 per participant.
He added that “the practice of operating solely focused on the bottom-line of accumulating profit while ignoring pertinent social issues that affect the people who support our businesses is ancient, and falls short of best corporate practices. The time is ripe to come together to address some of these shared common social problems.
“We would like to thank the corporates that joined us on the project thus far, and call on more to do so. We have reached out to a number of companies and individuals and will continue to invite more to register their participation because we believe more is always merrier,” he said.
About the event
The ‘We Race Together’ project will bring together over 140 personalities from across Namibia and from all walks of life to race in a 4x100-metre relay. The event is slated to take place at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek on 23 April.
These personalities will be teamed up to make relay teams of four persons and will receive professional training from world-class Namibian coaches.
The teams will participate in various qualifying heats, and those who qualify for the final will have the honour to race against two world-class teams; the first consisting of Christine Mboma, Beatrice Masilingi, Frank Fredericks and Helalia Johannes, and the other consisting of Johannes Nambala, Johanna Benson and Ananias Shikongo.
WINDHOEK
Yesterday at a press announcement in Windhoek, six corporates, become the first wave of entities to support MTC’s ‘We Race Together’ initiative. Shoprite, Namib Mills, Erongo Marine Enterprise, the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (Bipa), Namport and Namibia Airport Company (NAC) all threw their hats into the ring, with Namib Mills, Shoprite and MTC all registering their participation in the much-anticipated event with N$120 000 each.
Erongo Marine Enterprise pledged N$90 000, while BIPA, NAC and Namport aided the cause with N$30 000 each.
The innovative ‘We Race Together’ initiative, under the annual MTC Knockout Project umbrella, aims to drive towards nation-building, and to inculcate a culture of unity while raising funds for a yet-to-be-announced charity.
MTC’s chief human capital and corporate affairs officer Tim Ekandjo thanked all the corporates that came on board and challenged more to register their participation in the project with a fee of N$30 000 per participant.
He added that “the practice of operating solely focused on the bottom-line of accumulating profit while ignoring pertinent social issues that affect the people who support our businesses is ancient, and falls short of best corporate practices. The time is ripe to come together to address some of these shared common social problems.
“We would like to thank the corporates that joined us on the project thus far, and call on more to do so. We have reached out to a number of companies and individuals and will continue to invite more to register their participation because we believe more is always merrier,” he said.
About the event
The ‘We Race Together’ project will bring together over 140 personalities from across Namibia and from all walks of life to race in a 4x100-metre relay. The event is slated to take place at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek on 23 April.
These personalities will be teamed up to make relay teams of four persons and will receive professional training from world-class Namibian coaches.
The teams will participate in various qualifying heats, and those who qualify for the final will have the honour to race against two world-class teams; the first consisting of Christine Mboma, Beatrice Masilingi, Frank Fredericks and Helalia Johannes, and the other consisting of Johannes Nambala, Johanna Benson and Ananias Shikongo.
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