He would take his first tentative steps on ice a few years later at Nairobi’s Panari Hotel, home of the only ice rink in East Africa. Azegere was speaking in Toronto, where as the captain of Kenya’s fledgling national hockey team, the Ice Lions, he’s been enjoying a watershed week. About one-third the size of a typical hockey ice surface, it’s primarily used for pleasure skating and costs about $12 per person per hour to go for a twirl. To paraphrase one of the Ice Lions in their famed video: You get on the ice and you forget about everything else. The fundraising goal is in excess of $250,000; as of Friday morning, the Ice Lions had received donations of about $2,600.

Source: thestar October 19, 2018 19:52 UTC