VURLON Mills Football Academy Inc. will be hosting its second inaugural outreach programme, targeting children from Albouystown, East Ruimveldt, and West Ruimveldt, between the ages of eight and 13.
The football academy will be collaborating with The Siskin Group Inc. (TSG) and the programme will focus on health, life skills, and football.
Coach Vurlon Mills, in an interview with the Guyana Chronicle, said that last year’s camp was a success and it targeted the same 70 children from Albouystown only.
“When we first did it, it was just one of my coaches and I who came up with the idea, ‘let’s target Albouystown’,” he said.
He related that TSG heard about their outreach programme and expressed interest in collaborating to hold the second outreach programme.
“They actually provided all the equipment and all the outreach programme uniforms and they are helping us in a big way financially as well,” Mills said.
The camp will be held at the Guyana Football Club (GFC) ground.
He related that they chose those communities because they are underserved and not many children have the opportunity to be a part of clubs and they are hoping to take some children for free into the academy from their areas after the outreach.
Based on information collected from last year’s outreach, they realised that many of the children are not in clubs.
Children training with the academy have the opportunity to represent Georgetown, once they play well and Mills said that their intention is to train them to represent Guyana and more.
“Mainly, we try to give you the opportunity to make the national team so that you can have a college opportunity. Maybe somebody would see you and you’ll have a college opportunity,” Mills said.
Some sponsors of this programme are MVP Sports, American Youth Soccer Organisation (AYSO), Sunshine Snacks, GFC and Ansa McAl.