PNG pro-boxing, CDS strike partnership
BOXING
BY KEVIN TEME
IT has never been an easy road for Cheshire disability Services.
Working with people with disability and sustaining the costs of running such programs and help care for those with disability is something Cheshire disAbility Services cannot do alone, especially funding constraints.
And these times of economic crisis that the country is facing, staff working with CDS or Cheshire disAbility Services find it especially difficult to sustain its staff as well as those with disability that are being housed at the Cheshire Home at Hohola in Port Moresby.
Cheshire disAbility Services communication and public relations officer Sonia-Kenu Becks said running such an organisation was difficult, especially trying to secure funds to sustain the organisation.
“That is the whole reason we’ve changed from Cheshire Home to Cheshire disAbility Services where we can go out to places and teach people how to take care of people with disability but then again, funding is still a problem for us,” Becks said.
Despite the funding obstacles, the New Year came as a blessing for the Cheshire disAbility Services when PNG Professional Boxing Association stepped in with a helping hand of K6,500 raised through the auction of Filipino professional Manny Pacquiao’s boxing gloves.
Pacquiao from the Philippines is one of the top world ranked professional boxers and is ranked fourth in the BoxRec’s ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all-time.
PNG Professional Boxing Gym patron and former Kavieng MP Ben Micah said the boxing gloves were signed by Manny Pacquiao and was auctioned during the first-ever Oceania professional boxing tournament held in Port Moresby on December 22. The gloves were bought by the Shady Rest for K6,500.
“The boxing gloves were donated to us by former chairman of the PNG Sports Foundation Graham Osborne, who couldn’t afford to pay for a table during the fight night so had to donate the gloves to be auctioned and raise money,” Micah said.
He said when the gloves were auctioned, it raised over the amount expected and thanked Shady Rest for who were the highest bidder during the auction night.
Winner Ziya Rayani Rupa from Shady Rest was humbled with the highest bid to claim Pacquiao’s gloves.
“On behalf of Shady Rest and PNG Professional Boxing Gym, we would like to present to you this cheque for K6,500 towards your program. We hope it is a beginning for Shady Rest and PNG Boxing and we are excited to do this for you and the rest of PNG,” Rupa said.
Micah said the PNG Professional Boxing Gym will continue to partner with the CDS going forward into the future.
“We will also give 10 per cent of every net profit made from hosting any professional boxing tournament in the country. We are happy to help,” he said.
Micah added that the money raised was for a worthy cause than boxing as one day some of the boxers or their kids might end up in this place like this. (Therefore) it’s worth supporting the organisation.
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