Today’s focus is aimed at Highlighting some of the great work being done by one of our partners, CHAMPROSports. Their continued commitment to corporate responsibility is one of the many reasons we’re proud to be in business with CHAMPRO.
Here at TSP HQ, most of our experience with Ethiopian culture involves fantastic Ethiopian restaurants in West Philly (Bluegrass Thursdays at Fiume, anyone?). Seriously though, as an international team sports dealer, we take pride in serving customers all over the world, including providing uniforms and apparel to ICS ADDIS (an International school based in Ethiopia very near to the CHAMPRO facility).
CHAMPRO's charitable work in this area deserves praise. In 1999, a partnership, sponsored by the Ethio-American Trade and Investment Council (EATIC), was formed between CHAMPROand an Ethiopian investor to open a garment factory there. And the rest as they say, is history.
Upon visiting the site of their joint venture in 2002, then Secretary of State Paul O’Neill and U2 lead singer and activist Bono told the press contingent that, “the CHAMPRO factory could provide a model for investment, trade and development in Africa.”
