By Alfayo Isaac
Teachers have been urged to prioritize participating in sports to enhance their health and to preventing them from getting lifestyle diseases at their young age.
Speaking during the launch of 1st Edition of Kericho Sub County teachers’ sports held at Kipchimchim grounds the Director Betting Control and Licensing Board BCLB Ann Too said by engaging teachers relieves stress after a long day work.
‘Teachers undergo various challenges in class time and giving them an opportunity to play will set an example to the learning by giving them a positive impact on sports and also brings cohesion and integration among the teachers in the region’,Too said.
The director said the aim of the event is to increase access to quality sports programmes with competent teachers who can effectively generate learners to impact more on nurturing their talents and different fields.
She assured teachers that in partnership with betting players in the country to sponsor such events that will be done annually where also called upon Primary and Secondary teachers drawn from the Kericho Sub County to participate in sports.
Too said they started the event by planting more than 200 species of trees with the aim of conserving the environment where every teacher who attended the event planted two to three trees on the school compounds.
‘I do like to encourage members of the public to exercise tree planting session which is a great mandate to every human being to have a clean air and conducive environment for learning’, the director added.
She added that using sport as an outlet for fun and competition teachers gains the skills that will make them fit while teaching. ‘It’s a call to the ministry of education to set up a teachers’ sports edition during holidays for this will promote unity across the nation and also the winners in the competition to be awarded with various prizes’, She adds.
Ainamoi ward won in the football men after beating Kapsaos ward in a score of 2.0 as Kapsoit ward won football lady’s sports .More than 200 teachers from the sub county turn up for the competition sponsored by Jambobet a Kenyan based betting company.
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