By Flowerbudnews
Ebere Amaraizu, Chairman, Rangers International Football Club Foundation, has hailed the club’s management for instituting an initiative of Rangers’ Stadium Volunteers and Stewards.
Amaraizu told newsmen on Thursday in Enugu that the recent initiative of the club’s General Manager, Amobi Ezeaku, is one of the best things that had happened to football development in our country.
According to him, this is the first in the country and in line with the international best practices.
“Stadium stewards/volunteers, which is freewill, will help in community services, provide convivial services which promote the face of the game especially in the areas of environment (climate action), stadium cleanliness through removal of debris that can cause disaffection and dissatisfaction of fans/spectators.
“They also will help to maintain stadium decorum and add spices to the general security, safety and orderliness in the stadium with easy coordination.
“This is a huge one and needs to be replicated in all our national clubs and stadiums,” he said.
On Rangers international FC encounter with Enyimba international FC of Aba on Sunday in Enugu, Amaraizu described it as a derby which would help to promote community cohesion and social responsibility within the South-East and the country.
“I charge lovers of football to leverage on the passion that comes with this kind of great derby to propagate peace, compassion, build bridges as one body with one goal to foster community cohesion for a greater society,” he said.
On Rangers International FC Foundation, he revealed that the foundation had already fine-tuned its activities and frameworks with multi-disciplinary approaches and strong coalitions on community driven interventions.
Amaraizu, who is also a sports administrator, said that the interventions would make positive community impact especially in the areas of children and youth interventions.
“Other focus areas of the intervention included: climate change, health and well-being, community engagement that will create life changing experience and opportunities among others,” he added.