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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 24 2009:
Giving a boost to boxing , United Aroma Commercial Company Limited (UNACCO) has decided to donate a sum of Rs 5000 every month, upto 2012, to MC Mary Kom Boxing Academy at National Games Village, Langol.
Managing Director of UNACCO Ningombam Irabanta handed over a written deed in this regard to MC Mary Kom during a simple function at the office of the company at Porompat Chuthek today.
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Speaking at the occasion, Irabanta said that the decision to donate Rs 5000 every month upto 2012 to the boxing academy run by MC Mary Kom, who has won the World Women Boxing Championship four times, has been taken to encourage the student trainees of the academy.
He further said that all of us should be proud of Mary Kom and her work and pray to god that she may win gold medal in boxing at the 2012 Olympics.
Expressing her gratitude, MC Mary Kom, who has also been chosen for conferring Khel Ratna, the highest sporting award of the country this year, said it is for the first that a private company in Manipur has come forward to help her Academy which is being run free of cost out of sheer pleasure of honing the talent of budding boxers.
There are 20 young players, including 10 boys and 10 girls, presently undergoing training at the Academy, Mary Kom informed, adding that the news of the humanitarian gesture of UNACCO would also be welcomed by the players and their parents.
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