Athletics
Kuki’s Laikipia Games win top award at peace sports forum
Princely sum?: It was not immediately clear whether Kuki Gallmann, president of the Laikipia-based Gallmann Memorial Foundation (centre) and sports minister Hellen Sambili were expecting a cheque for a tidy sum from Prince Albert II of Monaco after Gallmann’s Laikipia Highland Games was named as the Sports Event of the Year at the Sports and Peace awards ceremony presided over by Prince Albert in Monte Carlo on Thursday night. Photo/ELIAS MAKORI
Posted Friday, November 27 2009 at 22:00
In Summary
- Environmentalist Kuki Gallman feted for the games between warring Samburu and Pokots
“This award for the Laikipia Games will obviously play a big role in bringing peace in Kenya and we call on the organizers of this awards ceremony to ensure that there are follow-ups to make such projects sustainable in the long term,” Sambili said.
At the ceremony on Thursday, the award for the Best Peace Project from an International Sports Federation went to the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) for its development programmes which use the values of table tennis as an instrument of integration and social stability in severely disadvantaged urban areas in Afghanistan, Yemen, Jordan and Colombia.
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