Boxers in covid relief package

THE World Boxing Council (WBC) has planned a relief package for active and retired boxers meant at mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the athletes.

And Interxity Boxing Academy has been identified by the WBC as a conveyor-belt of the funds in Zambia.

Academy Operations Director Mabvuto Tembo confirmed the development saying that the global boxing body was looking to help retired and active boxers and had approached his stables to spearhead the process in Zambia.

Tembo said WBC was looking to render assistance in various forms that included financially, material as well assisting families of the athletes with school fees.

He said that the Academy was honored to have been recognized with such a responsibility and would make sure Zambians benefit from the initiative.

He called on retired boxers and active ones to approach the academy so that they could be enlightened on how to go about the entire process.

Tembo said that his stables would also take advantage of the gesture by WBC because of their initiative where they had been taking boxers to school as that came with a cost.

He said that he was looking forward to the boxers being beneficiaries of the COVID-19 relief package and that his charges were doing well in school.

Interxity Boxing Academy has for the past one year been running an initiative in which all its junior boxers had been enrolled back into school so as to steer them away from the streets.