Clive Atwell (centre) is happy to be receiving the donation from Telesha Ousman in the presence of his wife Altavi
The statement ‘If you live for yourself, you live for a day but if you live for others you live forever’ seems to have been the mantra that steered the management of a successful corporate entity in Georgetown to support a successful boxer who was forced to slow down in the prime of his life.
Regal Stationery and Computer Centre and Regal Sports of Seaforth Street Campbellville have thrown their support behind boxer Clive Atwell following two successful brain surgeries.
The corporate entity presented US$500 to the boxer at a simple ceremony at the 69 Seaforth Street, Campbellville location.
The well celebrated Atwell who was unable to continue his fight against Dexter Gonsalves at Giftland Mall a year ago, learnt that he was losing blood and needed a reconstruction surgery which was done at Balwant Singh hospital at a cost of G$4M. The bill was shared by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control, Atwell himself and the World Boxing Council.
After that episode and Atwell was recovering from that life changing incident, he learnt that he needed another surgery and this could not be done locally so he embarked on raising funds for the surgery to be done in Trinidad and Tobago. However, on his fund raising trip to New York in July he met Matt Furigo the CEO of Ring 10 boxing foundation who made the surgery possible at Kingsbrook Jewish hospital in New York ten months after its scheduled date.
Atwell related that during his stay in New York he visited the Roy Wilkinson Park where Regal was competing in the New York Softball Cricket League masters and open Independence Cup finals in early July where he met Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Regal Stationery and Computer Centre and Regal Sports Mahendra Hardyal who promised to support the boxer upon their return to Guyana.
Atwell said he is thankful for the assistance and congratulated Regal for winning both masters and open titles adding that he was impressed with their discipline and team work. Atwell is grateful to the almighty and expressed gratitude to sport journalist Sean Devers, Gwen Williams, Matt Furigo, GBBC, WBC, Dr. Monica Sanchez, Caricom International of New York, Fly Jamaica, Director of Sport Christopher Jones and the media.
Regal defeated Floodlights and New York Allstar in the masters and open finals respectively, and Hardyal who won the man-of-the-match award in the masters final said he is happy to assist the boxer for it is their way of giving back to the society. Regal Sports is the newest addition to the Regal Stationery and Computer Centre chain and offers a variety of sporting equipment at attractive prices for sport men and women.
