Astute Sports Journalist Oti-Asirifi donates to National Women’s Deaf Football Team

Astute Sports Journalist, Mr Joseph Mensah Oti-Asirifi paid a visit to the National Women’s Deaf Football Team to donate some items and an undisclosed amount of money to them in Bechem in the Bono Region.

Oti-Asirifi, who is a disability advocate and the head of the disability unit at Takoradi Technical University trekked from Takoradi to Bechem on Friday, August 27, 2021, to familiarize himself with their camp conditions after which he did the presentation to them.

Items donated include 10 bags of sachet water, 5 crates of eggs, and a football.

The team is dominated by students of Bechem School for the Deaf, and they are currently camped at the school dormitory

They are 24 in number with three officials. They have three balls and 10 improvised cones for training.

They are fed by the headmistress of the school on humanitarian grounds.

The team is preparing for African Deaflympics in Kenya later this year which is also a qualification for World Deaflympics in Brazil 2022.