BOXING NEWS - A local non-profit organisation has been given items by a German sponsor, who came from Germany to present the items to the boxers.
Manfred Lutter, the sponsor, started boxing at the age of 12. In his boxing career he had 61 fights, 50 wins, three draws and he lost eight fights.
Lutter became an official in 1989. He has an international referee licence and was public relations official and president of a club. In 1991 he became as a trainer and from 1998 till 2000 he studied boxing arts at the Trainers' Academy of Germany and universities of Cologne and Leipzig. He is also the trainer of the German Olympic Sports Union.
Currently Lutter is educating new trainers in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
Lutter donated boxing gloves, a T-shirt, gum guards and bandages to the 10 youngsters at the club.
Ikhaya Community Development Sport and Recreation provides indoor sports development and recreation programmes to the youth in the Mossel Bay municipal area.
The organisation forms partnerships with schools, government departments and businesses.
"Our aim is to form a commitment with the young people of the Mossel Bay area to promote interpersonal skills and reassert a sense of hope in the future," says Lazola Thole "King", founder and chairman of Ikhaya Community Development Sport and Recreation.
Thole himself was a boxer in East London, but stopped boxing in 1999 at amateur level.
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