Official announcement of BWF QUTAR badminton foundation
March 1st, 2007
At a news conference in Doha, Qatar, President Young Joong Kang announced the intention of BWF to establish the BWF-Qatar Badminton Foundation, a first of its kind. The Foundation will be chaired by Qatar’s Rashid bin Safar bin Shaba’ha Al Hajri and will include top BWF officials as well as top business and high ranking officials from the middle east region.
Mr. Kang believes that the Foundation will lay the building stones to introduce the sport to more nations as well as ensuring that the level of improvement was on a more holistic manner.
The self funding Foundation will set up an endowment to finance its projects that would encompass: the organization of coaching clinics, exhibition matches, tournaments, seminars and business exhibitions through event managers, to organize fund raising activities such as dinners, donation campaigns and merchandising.