HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Dec 20: Reliance Foundation, the CSR arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), and Yakult Danone India Pvt. Ltd., a Japanese and French joint venture company, announced a partnership with Reliance Foundation Young Champs (RFYC). The association will provide RFYC scholars access to international youth football tournaments across Asia. The Yakult team will also work with the coaching and the performance teams at the institute to share knowledge about probiotics and nutrition, thereby contributing to the holistic development of scholars.
Further, RFYC scholars will get the opportunity to compete in different age-group tournaments in Asia, to jointly share experience, training, and knowledge with club footballers in their age group. The RFYC team has in the past, played against teams from the Premier League in India and England. In October 2022, the RFYC U14 teams participated in the Malaysia Supermokh Cup 2022 which was played against European, ASEAN, and Japanese youth teams. The U17 RFYC team is scheduled to travel to Japan to participate in one of the top-level U17 tournaments in Japan named the Sanix International Cup in 2023.
Expressing his views, Hiroshi Hamada, managing director, Yakult Danone India Pvt. Ltd said, “We are delighted to partner with Reliance Foundation to help nurture young talent in India. We are now interested in improving the health of the youth of India, through our association with Reliance Foundation, which is in line with our corporate philosophy of contributing to the health and happiness of people around the world.
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Through such CSR activities, we have developed an entrenched working relationship, with various stakeholders in the football ecosystem, in Japan and Malaysia, and now seek to leverage the same for the benefit of young talented players of the Reliance Foundation Young Champs program, in India.”
