\u201cMy first \u2018social\u2019 travels started at the end of the 1980s with voluntary missions to developing countries\u201d, says Gerry, a historic partner of Inter Campus Cambodia.<\/p>\n
Having visited plenty of countries, he eventually arrived in Cambodia along with his group.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a remote village 50 kilometres away from Phnom Penh is where we today have the Mission Possible school and it\u2019s where Inter Campus operate,\u201d Gerry continues. \u201cAn elderly village chief approached us to ask us to help the local population, one that experienced the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge genocide. Hundreds of children were without education because of extreme poverty and a lack of teachers\u00a0\u2013 the latter victims of Pol Pot and his accomplices. We took up the challenge and in 2006 we launched the Mission Possible elementary school with our first six classes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The alliance with Inter Campus was formed in 2011, bringing with it an important element that Gerry was previously missing: sporting fun. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy starting off. Football was a complete unknown in this part of the world. The kids\u2019 instinct was to pass it with their hands.\u201d Gerry tells us that over time that the children fell in love with football and felt part of the Nerazzurri family \u2013 also thanks to the Inter shirt that represents a symbol of identity. The kids have nothing apart from their school uniform and their Inter shirt. This means that they take great care of it. Despite the expectations, restricted by cultural prejudice, the kids were immediately enthusiastic about the opportunity that Inter Campus offered them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Roong, where kids where often sent to work in the fields prior to Inter Campus, Gerry tells us that they now have the right to play alongside the right to education. He\u2019s proud of the progress made with his beloved Inter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kids would\u2019ve gone to school anyway but this makes them even happier!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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