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Kee Safety Supports Charity Mission to Sierra Leone

October 19, 2011

Four teenagers from Berkshire are spending their half term holiday teaching sport to children in youth centres and schools in Sierra Leone. Kee Safety has supported their efforts by providing equipment for them to use while coaching football, basketball and athletics.

The four seventeen year old boys will be working as part of the Don Bosco Fambul programme. organised by the Salesian Mission which aims to change the lives of the children there. Sierra Leone is one of the world's poorest countries and is still recovering from 10 years of civil war that left more than 60,000 children orphaned and homeless. The Mission runs a number of centres which offer basic shelter, food and clothing to the children and the programme is designed to help re-integrate these former street children into society and sport plays a vital part in this process. The boys, Ben, Dan, Max and Scott have a range of sports coaching and refereeing qualifications between them and they will be running sessions at a number of community centres and schools over the course of the 10-day trip.

The boys are pictured holding various pieces of the sporting equipment with David Hill, Group Marketing Director at Kee Safety.