A local football team has joined forces with a church group to provide football shirts for underprivileged children in Nigeria.
Local volunteers from the church will be travelling to Nigeria in early October and are asking the local community to donate spare football tops. The aim is to fill a suitcase with shirts, bringing joy to children who are passionate about football.Kings Kids is a project that reaches out to some of the most vulnerable members of society, including orphans, widows, the disabled, and those affected by poverty and trauma.
Ian Seymour. the locally-based mission support worker for the church and has been leading on their Nigeria project, said: “Football brings a huge amount of excitement and happiness to these kids. A simple shirt can mean the world to them.”
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