International sports, tennis
Roger Federer in Ethiopia, 2010 (photo, ©2010 Roger Federer Foundation)
Update 17:25 Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will play each other in a charity match 21 December at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. Proceeds from “The Match for Africa” will go to the Roger Federer Foundation. Tickets go on sale 1 September.
The RFF supports education, sports and leisure activities in places with little or no funding at all. It has as its slogan the words of 15-year-old Nolonwabo Batini from Port Elizabeth, South Africa: “I am tomorrow’s future.” The foundation works “to permit a maximum of children to make the slogan become reality in their lives and help them actively shape their future.
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Etas project in Zimbabwe: the Roger Federer Foundation is spending some CHF80,000 a year on the project to improve the infrastructure of 8 schools, as well as investing in teacher training and the quality of education for about 2,000 children in the Matopo region.
Basel and Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Roger Federer has signed a 10-year contract with Swiss bank Credit Suisse, for an undisclosed sum, the bank announced Monday 16 November. Federer, on his web site, notes that “As part of the partnership agreement, Credit Suisse will make a significant annual contribution to the Roger Federer Foundation, which is dedicated to helping disadvantaged children and to promoting education, sports and play, particularly in Africa.” The foundation was inspired by Federer’s South African mother and currently states on its web site that its capital is CHF4 million.
The bank’s CEO, Brady Dougan, did not stint in his enthusiastic praise of the Swiss tennis star:
