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« Thread Started on Dec 21, 2008, 11:14am »

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Sunday Nation/Kenya - Daniel Nyassi

With exorbitant operational costs coupled with the global economic downturn stinging Formula One, residents of Malindi are not complaining at all.
It appears that Formula One team Renault’s boss, Flavio Briatore, is releasing the motorsports stress by spending more time on the Kenyan coast and footballers in Malindi are enjoying every moment of it.

Malindi team, Zege FC from Mayungu, have a reason to smile after the Italian billionaire handed them uniforms and balls on Thursday and pledged to strike a partnership between Kenyan clubs and his English league side, Queens Park Rangers, which is battling to make a comeback to the Barclays Premier League.- Briatore said a container full of sports equipment was on the high seas headed for local schools and institutions.

-“This is just something small that I brought with me. Many more items are coming in one months’ time. They will be distributed to schools and other institutions in Malindi,” the Renault team manager told local officials while making the presentation to Zege FC at his exclusive Lion In The Sun Hotel in the upmarket Casuarina area on Thursday evening.- “I saw these players playing bare feet at Mayungu when I walked around and promised to assist them with sports equipment,” he said.Briatore flew into in Malindi on a private jet on Tuesday morning accompanied by his Italian lingerie model girlfriend, Elisabetta Gregoraci, for the Christmas and New Year holidays.
- He is set to visit the Seychelles Islands on a business trip before coming back to Malindi for the New Year’s holiday, a source at the hotel said.

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- “I have my team in London, the Queens Park Rangers, which I think could work in co-operation with local teams,” he said.
Briatore said the purpose of equipping the local teams was to make the youths occupied in sport and keep them away from the streets and from drugs.- The brief but colourful ceremony was witnessed by the Briatore Group of Companies’ manager Liana Pierino, Lion In The Sun general manager, Mr Philip Chai, and the hotel’s plus staff.
- Briatore said area MP Gideon Mung’aro, a close ally of the billionaire, will help in distributing further equipment."

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Re: Briatore Helping Out Kenyan Youth
« Reply #1 on Dec 21, 2008, 11:59pm »

So here Briatore is doing this wonderful thing. And nobody on any of the sites is saying anything. How strange!

And this was the Official Site last week - December 24

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SPREADING THE FESTIVE CHEER

QPR Holdings Ltd Chairman Flavio Briatore has been doing his bit to spread some festive cheer to the people of Kenya.

During a recent trip to Malindi, where his uniquely beautiful resort 'Lion In The Sun' is based, Briatore visited the local football team, Zegge FC.

And with the support of Lotto Sport Italia, the R's official kit supplier, Briatore presented them with an assortment of boots, kits and footballs.

Supported by QPR, Briatore now sponsors Zegge FC, which translates in the local slang language as 'the ones that cannot be defeated.'

http://www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1497391,00.html

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Re: Briatore Helping Out Kenyan Youth
« Reply #2 on Dec 22, 2008, 1:00pm »

I for one would be well chuffed to see QPR kits being worn anywhere in the world.

Fair play to him, does it mean he won't be at Charlton and Watford then? Disgracefull.

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Re: Briatore Helping Out Kenyan Youth
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Daily Nation - Poor of Malindi gain big from Italian generosity

By DANIEL NYASSYPosted Saturday, December 27 2008 at 18:53

Villagers in the rural Mayungu village, which neighbours the exclusive Lion in the Sun beach resort owned by Italian billionaire Flavio Briatore, have reason to celebrate the festive season courtesy of the philanthropic Briatore family.

Mr Briatore and his wife Elisabetta Gregoraci, who are on holiday in the tourist haven of Malindi, showered the poor families with goodies.

Two goats each
The couple gave 30 poor families two goats each, maize floor, cooking oil and other gifts worth over Sh600,000 in total.

“I have given them goats so that even after the festivities, the animals can multiply and give the families the base to start having an income,” Mr Briatore said.

Standing side by side, the couple donated the gifts to the visibly excited families at a colourful ceremony held at the Lion in the Sun resort.

The couple arrived in the country a week ago for the Christmas and New Year festivities, and gave each of the families three bales of maize flour, 10 kilogrammes of beans, five kilogrammes of sugar, mosquito nets and cooking oil, in addition to goats, and fishing nets for fishermen.

“Mr Flavio and his wife believe that giving someone a fishing line and hook is better than giving him a fish because the latter makes the beneficiary a perpetual dependant,” said Mr Phillip Ayub Chai, the hotel manager.

He said Mr Flavio had asked his staff to identify needy cases from the fishing village of Mayungu, where he plans to develop another posh property.

Last Friday, Mr Flavio also donated football uniforms and balls to Zege Football Club, based in the same village.

Mr Flavio is the managing director of the Formula One Renault team and married the Italian model Ms Gregoraci in June this year at a ceremony attended by the the who’s who of the world.
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