Cheptegei stresses that they have since suspended construction works at the facility and instead shifted their energies in reaching out to the well wishers, who will raise both funds and technical support to ensure that the facility is constructed in comformity to world class athletics standards.
Nile Breweries Limited-NBL, has donated 100 million Shillings
towards the construction of Joshua Cheptegei’s privately owned high altitude athletes
training center in Kapchorwa district.
Cheptegei who commissioned construction works in 2018 says
that the training facility will help young talented individuals to professionalize
their athletics careers at "under grade ages".
Construction works stalled the following year due to lack of
funds, however, after wining at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medal, Cheptegei
launched fundraising drives, aimed at fostering his project.
He also says that, the facility will act as a sporting centre of excellence and for nurturing promising athletes, with limited opportunities of
hiring professional coaches, to train them through their sporting careers.
Cheptegei told URN on Thursday that he has embarked on
fundraising drives to raise the 1.7 billion Shillings required for the
construction of the training facility.
Cheptegei stresses that they have since suspended
construction works at the facility and instead shifted their energies in reaching
out to the well wishers, who will raise both funds and technical support to
ensure that the facility is constructed in adherence to world class
athletics, standards.
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Cheptegei further calls upon willing individuals and
corporate companies to mobilize funds towards the construction of a facility,
which he says will foster the country’s social economic transformation through
sports.
He adds that, construction works at the facility will resume early next year.
Meanwhile, NBL’s head of marketing, Amou Majok says that it
is their social corporate responsibility to support communities and
outstanding individuals alike in boosting their dreams and aspirations, with
an aim of fostering the social economic transformation of the entire country
at large.