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Australia Day Challenge in Fiji plus ASOP grant handover

Oceania

AFL Fiji is today hosting a 2013 'AUSTRALIA DAY CHALLENGE' – with regular combatants the Cats versus the Swans in an Australia Day game. Also, the Fiji Tribe 2012 OCEANIA CUP SELECTED REPS - 11 IN ALL - WITH THEIR PARENTS ACCOMPANYING – will be meeting at 4PM today, ALBERT PARK – and will receive vital information with respect to APRIL in Australia.

MR GLEN MILES (Acting Australian High Commissioner) has as a special guest for the 'AUSTRALIA DAY' MATCH AND MEETING AT ALBERT PARK 4pm. Mr Miles will hand over our 2013 Australian Sports Outreach Program (ASOP) GRANT as well as TOSS THE COIN for the match.

Pacific Islands News Association reports about the ASOP Grant.

In addition to expanding local participation in Australian Rules football, AFL Fiji will use its grant of $18,267 to assist in the development of leadership skills training in the administration of the game in Fiji.

“AFL Fiji will also offer formal skills and fitness training courses for coaches. As an avid Carlton supporter myself, I am pleased to see local development of our uniquely Australian game,” Miles said.

The Australian Sports Outreach Program is an Australian Government-funded program which began in 2006. It is managed by the Australian Sports Commission and aims to assist sports organisations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

It is vitally important that International AFL programs make themselves fully aware of potential funding options out there. Grants applications are a skill in themselves so WFN would encourage some knowledge sharing to occur.