Following their nice efficiency within the subsequent video games they’ve participated in, the Gazelles have acquired a Ladies’s Day enhance from PostBank Uganda and Crown Drinks Restricted (CBL), to rejoice the crew for representing the nation in a optimistic gentle in addition to flying the nation’s flag excessive and setting the stage for recognition of native expertise and sports activities at regional and world degree.
Gazelles are Uganda’s Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball crew and constructing on their good efficiency within the totally different video games, the crew was capable of safe its place within the AfroBasket 2025 event following a hard-fought victory in opposition to Egypt.
The Afro Basket championship is ready to happen from 27th July to 03rd August 2025, in Ivory Coast, and as a solution to rejoice this nice achievement this Ladies’s Day, PostBank Uganda has collaborated with CBL to offer in variety help to activation’s which can be carried out by means of the workplace of the Ladies Commissioner to acknowledge the crew for the onerous work and fervour showcased on and off the basketball courtroom.
AfroBasket Ladies (previously FIBA Africa Championship for Ladies) is the ladies’s basketball continental championship of Africa, performed each two years organized by FIBA, the world governing physique for basketball. The event serves to qualify groups for participation within the FIBA Ladies’s World Cup and the Olympic Video games which happen each 4 years.
PostBank Uganda’s Head of Advertising and Communications, Priscilla Akora, defined that the financial institution is dedicated to supporting excellence and resilience, values that the Gazelles have exemplified on their unimaginable journey to the AfroBasket event, and the 2025 Ladies’s Day was an opportune time to rejoice them and rallying behind them as they put together for the event come July 2025.
“As a financial institution devoted to fostering prosperity for Ugandans, we imagine this contribution will make a significant influence on the crew’s preparations. With youth and ladies empowerment as one of many key pillars of our Company Social Funding, this donation is extra than simply monetary help, it additionally acknowledges, conjures up, and uplifts ladies in sports activities to speed up the motion they wish to see of their private {and professional} lives which is in keeping with the 2025 Worldwide Ladies’s Day theme Speed up Motion,” Akora mentioned.
Againe Sandra, the Company Communications Supervisor at Crown Drinks Restricted, emphasised the significance of hydration, particularly in gentle of the current warmth wave with temperatures hovering as much as 34 levels, inflicting discomfort and the necessity to consistently take water. She mentioned, “This initiative with PostBank is well timed, and thru the Nivana Model, CBL will donate 400 cartoons of water as a result of hydration is essential each throughout and after coaching classes, and we hope it will assist the crew keep refreshed and energized as they put together for the upcoming tournaments.”
The Girl Commissioner below the Federation of Uganda Basketball Affiliation (FUBA), Mrs. Ainematsiko Racheal Atuhairwe expressed her gratitude to PostBank Uganda and Crown Beverage Restricted for the beneficiant donations in direction of the activation’s that might be carried out this month to rejoice ladies in sport.
Mrs. Ainematsiko Racheal mentioned, “We’re honored to obtain these donations which have are available in a time when the Gazelles are quickly making ready for AfroBasket event, and as FUBA we imagine if we be a part of efforts with companions like PostBank, CBL, and all these we collaborate with, we’re capable of pave means for nurturing or grooming native expertise and sports activities within the nation, significantly ladies’s sports activities which are sometimes sidelined.”
Gazelle’s Deputy Captain, Akello Hope Agnes appreciated PostBank and CBL for celebrating the crew. She mentioned it will encourage them to even soar to higher heights as they characterize the nation on the 2025 AfroBasket event in July this yr and likewise wanting ahead to the help for the upcoming activations to not rejoice ladies but additionally rejoice all younger women and girls who play totally different sports activities.
PostBank cares for folks in its neighborhood, and it’ll at all times collaborate with stakeholders by means of actions which can be aligned with the Financial institution’s company social agenda whereas it fulfills its goal of fostering prosperity for Ugandans.
