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, along with his wife, NBC New York news anchor Stacey Bell, helped finance a college in a rural Maasai village of Lanjani from the northern portion of the nation. In a telephone conversation with Jenny Vrentas of SI.com in Tanzania, Lynn recently detailed his summer-break visit to Africa.
“These kids were getting pushed to the workforce as early as possible, growing up without schooling in any respect,” Lynn stated. “It was miserable, as where do your own hopes and dreams come from in case you don’t have this? How can you know if you like science until you take a science class? When I learned about the situation, I felt like I needed to get involved.”
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The faculty will help provide education for the rural population who has seen their own way of life challenged recently by hotter weather and erratic rains due to climate change, along with several other regional obstacles. Courses are expected to begin this week, per Vrentas. Lynn hopes that the school will offer another path to kids through education. Lynn described to Vrentas a few started. 1 example is that the school opens in 10 a.m. each day because 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 excursion.
Lynn said he plans to deliver 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 football terms,” Lynn stated. “Plenty of times, when you can help build these young guys into better guys, they will also become better football players. It’s something we’ll talk about. When you have the endurance and endurance that I have seen here in Tanzania, and you put positivity behind that, you can do anything you wish to do.”
Lynn said the excursion surprisingly might have left as big an impression on him as it did to the kids he is serving.
“You know, you move somewhere, and you expect to help folks and have an impact, and they wind up having an impact on you,” he explained. “Their resiliency, their durability, their mindset, their smiles. You see it and experience it, and it makes you love everything you really have.”
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