Young Abie Macartney - pictured here with her GrandDad Desi Macartney - helped launch the Fighting For Peace in Geneva where she demonstrated her skill at the UN capital along with Geneva’s Michael Dottrens in front of top Ambassadors
Belfast & Swiss school kids help launch new peace initiative through sport
A Northern Irish schoolgirl is still on a high after she visited the land of Cuckoo clocks, chocolate and very rich people. Abie Macartney, 13, travelled with her Grandfather ‘Rocki Desi’ to the UNICEF HQ in Geneva last week to help launch a new Europe-wide initiative to promote peace through kickboxing. The devoted young athlete was one of the first people to benefit from a pilot scheme in Northern Ireland that has grown to become the pan-European Fighting For Peace Initiative.
Prokick's Desi Macartney has been a great supporter of all his grand-children throughout their time in kickboxing, “I am very proud of all my grandchildren and with what they have achieved through kickboxing.”
Desi added “I was honoured to be invited to help launch this new initiative it is without doubt the biggest thing ProKick has ever been involved with and to be part of that from the start makes me so proud.”
Prokick’s Billy Murray was pleased Desi and Abie where able to join him and the rest of the team in Geneva “A big thanks to Hylands Fuels who gave Desi the green light for time off. He has such pride in Abie, and indeed in all his grand-kids who attend the gym, to have missed it would have been terrible.”
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