Kurt Okraku: “Football is a powerful tool for development “

GFA president, Kurt Okraku insists Football is a powerful tool for development.

At the GFA Foundation unveiling event held on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku, the President of the Ghana Football Association, emphasized the importance of utilizing football as a means of promoting development.

He stated that the GFA Foundation would serve as a conduit to advance all corporate endeavours related to the GFA.

‘’At the GFA, we believe that football should be used as a powerful tool for development. The Ghana Football Association now maintains that for the ultimate goal of football for development to be achieved, there should be deliberate, concerted and coordinated efforts in this regard’’ he said.

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‘’It is against this background that the Football Association is today establishing the GFA Foundation. We are doing this as a single purpose vehicle to drive all GFA related Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) initiatives in the country and beyond’’.

‘’The Ghana Football Association Foundation will be a social investment and sustainability management structure for our dear Football Association. The Foundation will have a tagline #GFACARES’’ he added.