TWO educational journals aimed at being a long-needed link in the academic and sporting progress of primary and secondary school students and athletes was launched in Suva yesterday.
The journals, created by the director and founder of Vodre Investment, Alumeci Vosararawa-Sachs with the support of her husband John and featuring designs by her daughter Marisa, strives to be a roadmap for schools around the country to use in helping achieve their academic and extra-curricular goals.
The books, titled “Champions Mindset” and “Reach for the Stars”, focus respectively on sporting progress and academic advancement.
Speaking during the launch at Sportsworld along Waimanu Road in Suva yesterday, Vosararawa-Sachs said the books were made to address the absence of documented progress in the sporting and academic journeys of students in primary and secondary school.
“A majority of the time, we do not document most of these things so we are encouraging athletes to write it up, to document it,” Vosararawa-Sachs said.
She also highlighted how coaches and teachers could use the journals to track the progress of athletes or students.
“This is how the coaches can be actually motivating students in schools, in clubs, in associations and at elite levels to be talking to them personally.”
Vodafone Fiji’s general manager of digital financial services, Shailendra Prasad was also present and reflected on the significance of the two journals.
“It’s an indigenous Fijian business that is venturing, it’s a woman-owned business and the most important part of this is that far too many times we have seen that elite sports athletes, once their career is over, they are lost in the crowd and nobody recognises them because throughout their life, their focus has always been in sports,” Prasad said.
The general manager of SportsWorld, Vinod Kumar, highlighted how the two journals would elevate the need to document the progress of students and athletes to the fore and the vital role it would play in the future.
The journals will be sold at $16 each at all 14 of SportsWorld’s outlets Fiji-wide or via online shopping platform VitiKart, powered by Vodafone Fiji, business payments to Vodre Investment on Vodafone’s M-Paisa.
