Right to Dream Academy seals landmark $750,000 sponsorship agreement with oil company Tullow

Published on: 19 March 2014
Right to Dream Academy seals landmark $750,000 sponsorship agreement with oil company Tullow
Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi and Right to Dream Academy founder Tom Vernon

By Ameenu Shardow

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Ghana’s Right to Dream Academy have signed a partnership agreement worth $750,000 with oil company, Tullow Ghana Limited.

The new partnership agreement will sees the Akrade-based football academy secure $250,000 in annual financial support from Tullow for the next three years.

The oil company will also be helping develop infrastructure at the academy widely regarded as Ghana’s leading talent development center.

Tullow also has the opportunity of extending this partnership beyound the initial three-year period to five years.

“Football is the passion of Ghanaians, and indeed the world at large,” Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said at the launch on Wednesday.

“I am very excited by Tullows investment in this project and I invite other corporate firms to emulate this example.”

The academy, established in 1999 has produced several football talents for the various national teams including Black Stars striker Abdul Majeed Waris.

Most of their graduates who don’t cut it in football are admitted in several boarding schools, universities and colleges across United States of America and the United Kingdom.

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