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Uganda: Use Sports to Fight Aids, Nabagereka Advises
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New Vision (Kampala)
7 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008
Swalley Kenyi
Kampala
THE Nabagereka of Buganda Sylvia Nagginda has advised NGOs to use sports to lure children from the streets and to fight the HIV/AIDS scourge.
Nagginda was speaking at a function where a girls team from Bring Children From Streets (BCS) Uganda presented to her a football trophy they won at the Bergen Cup in Norway last week.
The function was held at Nabagereka's office in Mengo on Tuesday.
"Thank you for bringing children from the streets to have a home. We need more of people like you to give children hope," Nagginda said.
The girls had just returned from a tour of Europe where they competed against opposition from America, Australia, Brazil, Kenya, Egypt and Mali.
The Nabagereka who is also patron of the Special Olympics Uganda, told the girls: "It doesn't matter where you are coming from. Where you are going is what matters. The sky should be the limit."
The Ugandan team, led by BCS director Richard Kiwanuka and Paul Ssali, stepped up the hunt for double success after the Norway Cup triumph.
But the team went down to Mali in the quarter-finals of the Norway Cup that was eventually won by FK Lund of Denmark.
BCS is based on Masaka road.
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The organisation takes care of orphans and former street children.
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