The charitable arm of The European Tour, the Tour Players Foundation (TPF), made a further donation of $25,000 to Dubai-based charity the Special Needs Families Group during the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
The Special Needs Families Group is a local organization in Dubai that specialises in providing holistic support to young adults with special needs through personalized and professional care at their SNF Children Development Centre, situated in the Al Kamara area of Dubai.
Representing the TPF, Yvonne Asp, Marie Fasth, Emily Howell and Lise-Marie Sterne of the European Tour Wives Association, visited the Development Centre on Thursday morning to present a cheque for $25,000 to SNF Director and Founder, Mrs Bari, and the children of the Centre, who treated the TPF representatives to a colourful show of music and dance to show their appreciation of the TPF’s donation.
The TPF’s relationship with the Special Needs Families Group Child Development Centre was established with a $50,000 donation during the inaugural Dubai World Championship presented by DP World in 2009, and the relationship was strengthened at last year’s Desert Classic, when the ETWA visited their friends at the Centre and donated a range of educational toys and gifts for the children.
Further financial support of $25,000 was donated at last year’s Dubai World Championship, when both the Trustees of the TPF and the ETWA visited again. The following day saw a special trip for some of the children, who made the journey to the Dubai World Championship site and were able to try their hand on the driving range and practice putting green under the watchful eye of European Tour Members Henrik Stenson of Sweden and England’s Oliver Wilson.
This latest visit, headed by the ETWA Chairperson, has given additional financial support to enable the organisation to carry on its invaluable work.
“It is very important that we continue the relationship with the Special Needs Families Group Child Development Centre, because the Tour Players Foundation’s donations have been invaluable to the Centre,” explained Marie Fasth.
“It is very encouraging to see the money that the TPF has donated has made such a huge difference to the lives of the children there, and we take a lot of satisfaction from knowing that the Tour is supporting local charities at our events around the world.
“It important that golf gives something back to the local communities that we visit, and it is always a very emotional and touching experience to visit the children and see that the TPF is making a worthy difference in their lives.”
