The recently launched Asafa Powell Foundation staged its first award function at the Courtleigh Hotel this morning.

Its conceptualizer, the former 100m world record holder, who was hailed by chairman, Attorney at Law, Delano Franklin, as “giving of his own will without being forced to do so”, was on hand to give cash awards and sports gears to a number of high school athletes who excelled in competition this year at the Gibson Relays and Boys and Girls Champs.