{"id":444248,"date":"2011-06-20T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/tanzania-olympic-team-gets-shot-in-the-arm\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T09:46:18","slug":"tanzania-olympic-team-gets-shot-in-the-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/tanzania-olympic-team-gets-shot-in-the-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Olympic Team Gets Shot in the Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"25.7704584041\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)<\/p>\n<p>17 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Dar es Salaam \u2014 The national team&#8217;s preparations for this year&#8217;s Special Olympic Games received a timely boost yesterday when Stanbic bank donated Sh3 million to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Over 7,000 athletes with mental disabilities from more than 180 countries across the world are expected to battle it out for top honours during the games set for June 25 to July 4 in Athens, Greece. Stanbic bank head of marketing and corporate affairs Abdallah Singano handed over the money to the team during a brief ceremony held at Tanzania Special Olympics office yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the occasion, Singano said the donation is part of the bank&#8217;s corporate social responsibility in assisting various worthy causes in the community. &#8220;As a bank we are pleased to assist the Tanzania Special Olympic committee and we hope the team will perform well,&#8221; said Singano.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are even more pleased to show our support to these special athletes. We wish them all the best in the games,&#8221; he added. The Athens Games are expected to attract 7,000 athletes from more than 180 countries around the world, 3,000 coaches and officials, 40,000 family members as well as thousands of spectators to cheer athletes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106200652.html\" title=\"Tanzania: Olympic Team Gets Shot in the Arm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanzania: Olympic Team Gets Shot in the Arm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) 17 June 2011 Dar es Salaam \u2014 The national team&#8217;s preparations for this year&#8217;s Special Olympic Games received a timely boost yesterday when Stanbic bank donated Sh3 million to the team. Over 7,000 athletes with mental disabilities from more than 180 countries across the world are expected to battle it out for top honours during the games set for June 25 to July 4 in Athens, Greece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-444248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tanzania: Olympic Team Gets Shot in the Arm - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/tanzania-olympic-team-gets-shot-in-the-arm\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tanzania: Olympic Team Gets Shot in the Arm - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) 17 June 2011 Dar es Salaam \u2014 The national team&#039;s preparations for this year&#039;s Special Olympic Games received a timely boost yesterday when Stanbic bank donated Sh3 million to the team. 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