Nigel Si­mon

This year's 29th edi­tion of the Mi­lo Games which comes off at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, next Tues­day, will ben­e­fit from a spon­sor­ship of $100,000 from–Nes­tle T&T Lim­it­ed.

Mak­ing the an­nounce­ment at the Grande Riv­iere Room, Mar­riott Ho­tel, In­vaders Bay, Mu­cu­rapo, yes­ter­day, was Rae-Ann Clement-Harp­er, Con­sumer Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er-Pow­der Bev­er­ages of Nes­tle.

Clement-Harp­er first point­ed out that her com­pa­ny was very pleased to once again be the spon­sors of the Mi­lo Games and ex­plained that the re­la­tion­ship was born 29 years ago. Since then Mi­lo has seen the games grow from strength to strength and is very pleased to be as­so­ci­at­ed with such ex­cel­lence in sport.

She added: "The Mi­lo brand is com­mit­ted to nour­ish­ing the na­tion's chil­dren, their bod­ies and minds, not on­ly through prop­er nu­tri­tion, but through de­vel­op­ment of their am­bi­tions and their pas­sion for sport.

"As I look in­to the eyes of all the stu­dents here to­day I see so much tal­ent and fu­ture Olympic medal­list just like Hase­ly Craw­ford, Ato Boldon, Richard Thomp­son and Je­hue Gor­don.

"For this rea­son, we con­tin­ue to sup­port ac­tiv­i­ties which pro­mote nu­tri­tion, health and well­ness, es­pe­cial­ly when it comes to our youth de­vel­op­ment pro­grammes.

Look­ing ahead, Clement-Harp­er said: "Nes­tle T&T Lim­it­ed through its brand Milon will con­tin­ue to nour­ish and sup­port sport and the na­tion's chil­dren as we have done over the last 29 years."

Clement-Harp­er al­so praised the ded­i­ca­tion of Kelvin Nan­coo and the Mi­lo Games Com­mit­tee for their ex­per­tise, time and ef­forts which no doubt has clear­ly paid off.

Elisa Dol­dron, head of Con­sumer Mar­ket­ing of Nes­tle T&T Lim­it­ed said: "The Mi­lo Games have be­come part of our DNA at Nes­tle, be­ing very much aligned with our fo­cus and en­cour­ag­ing phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty as a crit­i­cal part of lead­ing a healthy lifestyle.

"These Mi­lo Games, how­ev­er, takes us to an­oth­er lev­el, as sport in it­self not on­ly con­tributes to phys­i­cal well be­ing, but al­so plays a ma­jor role in holis­tic de­vel­op­ment."

Dol­dron added: "At this time when our young chil­dren and our so­ci­ety at large are faced with many neg­a­tive forces, en­gag­ing in sport­ing ac­tiv­i­ties, be­ing part of a team, and fo­cus­ing on what is good, can on­ly help to keep us mo­ti­vat­ed and com­mit­ted to liv­ing a health­i­er lifestyle.

"To­day with the launch of the 29th Mi­lo Games, we fur­ther strength­en our com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing the health and well be­ing of our young ath­letes by sup­port­ing their goals and as­pi­ra­tions to suc­ceed, cre­at­ing an op­por­tu­ni­ty for them to train, fo­cus and reap the ben­e­fits of their hard work and in so do­ing be­come health­i­er adults. I am sure they will make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to T&T in the near and dis­tant fu­ture," end­ed Dol­dron.

Twen­ty-two schools will bat­tle in the Mi­lo Games with reign­ing cham­pi­ons Di­a­mond Vale Gov­ern­ment (West Zone B) and Mar­aval RC School (West Zone A) both re­turn­ing to de­fend their crowns.