In a bid to develop and promote the sport nationwide, the newly elected executive of the Sierra Leone Handball Association (SLHA) has set aside their short term plans for the next six (6) months.
The association scribe Alie Gibril Koroma revealed that after their elective congress, they met as executive members and mapped out strategic plans to improve the association.
Highlighting the plans, A.G Koroma said if the association is to develop, the first thing is to get their house in order by securing an office space where they will be running the affairs of the sport on a daily basis.
He said another important short term plan is to amend and ratify their constitution. He said this is one area they want to put in place because as a family they have never come as one to prepare an agreed constitution, which will guide us throughout our administrative engagement in the association.
“So we want to have a constitution which is internationally acclaimed and locally accepted,” Gibril Koroma stated.
He added that as part of their plans they want to take up development plans especially in technical areas in terms of staging local referees training “so that we are able to train young referees that will be in position to officiate the handball games in all corners of the country.”
He added “we will also ensure that we send some of them for international referees training so that they will qualify to be international referees and at the same time cope with the new system of training in the International Handball Federation (IHF).”
Koroma said he would start to keep the young crop of coaches trained by the association recently very busy by attaching them to schools and communities so that they introduce the sport to kids and catch them young.
They will also facilitate elections for their regional executives so that they all work together in the development process of the sport as they hope to see the sport played right across the country.
He said their final short term plan is to ensure they attract sponsors and generate income to construct their court at the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown.
This he said will give opportunity to more kids to play the sport and will also intensify the development structure of building a very formidable national handball squad.
He said the current playing area where the players are training and playing competition is not conducive for them. This is because most time during trainings or matches people and vehicle interrupt and in most cases they stop those matches until the area is cleared before training progresses.
The handball scribe revealed that they can’t succeed in implementing those plans without support from corporate institutions and sport philanthropists.
He called on them to aid the association to achieve its aims and objectives.
By Bernard Turay
Thursday July 07, 2016
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