JNW Cleaning Solutions Sponsors U/14 Ekurhuleni Schools Football Challenge

JNW Cleaning Solutions SA was the main sponsor and organiser for the under 14 boys’ soccer tournament in the Ekurhuleni area, for the third consecutive year. The target of our engagement was to provide the learners with an unforgettable event, the chance to play professional soccer with professional equipment and to be part of a common experience and, not least, the opportunity to detect talent with further support. Together with a team from the Department of Education in the Ekurhuleni region and Love Life®, JNW Cleaning Solutions organised the tournament:

• May: selection of best teams from 81 schools; three teams per district started at the kick-off games
• 21-23 June: district finals, 12 teams played to get the three best teams
• 20 July: kick-off to select the best three teams and the 4th place
• 22 July: final, Tembisa, Makhulong stadium

The prizes were:

• 4th place: R2,500 for the school
• 3rd place: R5,000 for the school
• 2nd place: R10,000 for the school
• Winner: trip to Germany to meet German soccer legends from the famous Schalke 04 team and play together. The eight-day trip also includes an interesting program for the children

About the sponsor

JNW Cleaning Solutions is the world’s leading provider of cleaning systems and services, and provides these products for the external cleaning of heat exchangers, infrasonic soot and dust cleaning systems, ITC systems for the inside cleaning of heat exchanger tubes and full maintenance of fan drives. We provide these services worldwide to energy suppliers and manufacturing companies.

With JNW Cleaning Solutions, all known air-cooled heat exchangers can be cleaned:

• Air-cooled condensers (ACCs)
• Flat coolers – both induced and forced draft
• V-designs
• Vertical designs
• Hybrid cooling towers
• Natural draught cooling towers

Also, thank you to our co-sponsors and organisation partners:

• Department of Education from Ekurhuleni region
• Love Life®
• De Beers
• Tembisa Stadium Makhulong
• All participating schools and supporting teachers and coaches
• Our supplier
• All the supporting staff from the police, medical and security
• And finally, of course, the referees

Results of the final

• 1st prize: Sunward Park High School
• 2nd prize: Zitikeni High School
• 3rd prize: Sports School of Excellence
• 4th prize: Fred Habedi School

This article was first published in Southern African Petrochemicals.