By Kizan Brumell
Six junior boxers training for the Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in India in October were yesterday aided by relatives of the late Farouk Kalamadeen.
Clevon Rock and Akeen Alexander of the Guyana Defence Force Gym, Moonchand Sankar and Rhondell Douglas (Agricola Ricola), Orlando Allicock (Forgotten Youth Foundation) and Stefan Gouveia from the Harpy Eagle Gym were the recipients of six new bicycles.
Mimoon Bacchus and her nieces Nazrene Mirza and Lin Alladin were the warm-hearted women who donated the bikes to commonwealth boxing hopefuls; which were purchased from the China Trading Shopping Centre on Robb Street.
From these six athletes, four will be selected to represent Guyana in Punai, India.
“I came in for my nephew’s funeral and I was staying by Affeeze Khan (President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association) and heard about the boys and decided to donate two bicycles and my two nieces also heard about them and donated two bicycles each, ” said Bacchus.
The bikes are to help the boys in getting to practise early in the morning as they sometimes encounter transportation problems which cause them to be late for their training session.
“I think it will be easier now to get to training in the morning now cause most times we reach late for training,” one of the boxers said.
“It’s a tiring task going to morning sessions we sometimes miss training session because of no early morning transportation,” another added.
The six athletes said they were very grateful to the donors. Also present at the ceremony were Affeeze Khan and the coach Carl Franklin.
