At the heat of the NFL offseason,” Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn has been in Tanzania, in East Africa, opening up a school.
Lynn, together with his wife, NBC New York news anchor Stacey Bell, helped fund a college in a rural Maasai village of Lanjani from the northern portion of the country. In a telephone conversation with Jenny Vrentas of SI.com from Tanzania, Lynn recently detailed his summer-break trip to Africa.
“These kids were getting pushed to the work force as soon as possible, growing up without schooling at all,” Lynn stated. “It was sad, because where do your hopes and dreams come from in case you do not have this? How can you understand if you like science till you take a science class? As soon as I learned about the situation, I felt as though I needed to get involved.”
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The faculty will help provide education for the rural population that has witnessed their way of life challenged recently by hotter weather and unpredictable rains due to climate change, together with several other regional obstacles. Classes are expected to start this past week, per Vrentas, together with roughly 300 boys and girls in grades K-3. Lynn hopes the school will offer another path to children through education. Lynn explained to Vrentas a few of the challenges the school is functioning through as it has started. One example is that the school opens in 10 a.m. each day since lions feed to 9 a.m.
“These are things I never would have understood if I didn’t come over here,” Lynn said of the trip.
Lynn said he plans to bring the lessons learned in Africa back to Los Angeles when Chargers training camp opens later this month.
“I always try to take life experiences and use them in soccer terms,” Lynn said. “A lot of times, once you’re able to help build these young men into better guys, they will also become better soccer players. It’s something we will talk about. When you have the endurance and endurance I have seen here in Tanzania, and you place positivity behind this, you can do anything you wish to do.”
Lynn explained the excursion surprisingly could have left big an impression on him as it did for the children he’s helping.
“You know, you go somewhere, and you expect to assist folks and have an impact, and they wind up having an effect on you,” he explained. “Their resiliency, their toughness, their attitude, their smiles. You see it and experience it, and it makes you appreciate what you actually have.”
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