Paris 2024: Fame Foundation Partners French Embassy

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja

FAME Foundation has announced its new partnership with the French Embassy in Abuja towards the 2024 Summer Olympic/Paralympics Games that hold in Paris.

The Executive Director of FAME Foundation, Ms. Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello said the partnership is an avenue to support Nigerian youth, women and girls.

The partnership under the Play it Dream it Initiative, strengthening the inclusion of young people and vulnerable people through sport, will inspire and teach valuable life skills to young people – particularly those that are consistently underserved, excluded, or economically disadvantaged.

The agreement which was signed on July 1, 2023 serves as part of its commitment to creating more access and opportunity for the youth while there will be implementation of a wide range of projects aimed at empowering youths, athletes and promoting crucial social causes.

Aside being limited to the Olympic Games, the French Embassy in Nigeria is committed, in partnership with the NGO FAME Foundation, to uniting young people around the values of Paris 2024: creativity, making the utmost effort and sharing that demonstrate that sport has the power to change everything.

The projects include National BreakDance Championship to be held in partnership with Alliances Française and the Institut Francais of Nigeria across four states and the FCT.

 The states are Kano, Kaduna, Lagos and Rivers. As parts of line up of activities, a Para Soccer competition, Para Weightlifting competition, Girl-Child Education and Menstrual Health Hygiene Workshop at designated IDP camps and schools, and capacity building seminar for Olympics and Paralympics coaches, ahead of the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics tournaments that will take place in France.