World Rowing - Kafue River & Rowing Centre Fundraising Dinner
For the very first time, two of World Rowing’s ambassadors for the Kafue River & Rowing Centre (KRRC) project travelled to Zambia to support this initiative, launched jointly in 2015 by World Rowing and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Olaf Tufte, a seven-time Olympian and two-time Olympic champion from Norway, and Maike Diekmann, who last year in Tokyo, was the first-ever rower to represent Namibia at the Olympic Games, attended a fundraising dinner which was held Saturday, 13 August at the Mulungushi Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia.
The dinner, hosted by WWF Zambia, was attended by over 150 guests who included the WWF Country Manager, representatives of Zambia’s Ministries of Sport and Green Environment, the President and Secretary General of Zambia’s National Olympic Committee, the President of the Zambian Rowing Federation and various stakeholders around the Kafue River and its freshwater ecosystem. Fundraising for the evening took the form of pledges made by the guests in their individual capacities and/or on behalf of their organisations.