In the Warmth of the NFL offseason,” Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn has been in Tanzania, in East Africa, Starting up a school.
Lynn, along with his wife, NBC New York news anchor Stacey Bell, helped fund a college in a rural Maasai village of Lanjani in the northern part 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 children were getting pushed into the work force as soon as possible, growing up without education at all,” Lynn said. “It was miserable, because where do your own dreams and fantasies come from in case you don’t have this? How do you understand if you like science until you take a science course? When I learned about the circumstance, I felt like I had to get involved.”
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The faculty will help provide education for the rural population that has seen their own way of life challenged recently by hotter weather and erratic rains because of climate change, along with several other regional obstacles. Courses are expected to begin this week, per Vrentas, together with roughly 300 boys and girls in grades K-3. Lynn expects that the school will offer another route to kids through instruction. Lynn described to Vrentas some of the challenges the school is functioning through as it has started. One example is that the school opens in 10 a.m. daily since lions feed from 6 to 9 a.m.
“These are things I never would have understood if I did not 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 said. “A lot of times, when you can help develop these young guys into better men, they will also become better football players. It is something we’ll talk about. Whenever you have the grit and toughness that I have seen here in Tanzania, and you place positivity behind that, you can do whatever you wish to do.”
Lynn said the excursion surprisingly could have left as big an impression on him as it did to the children he’s helping.
“You know, you go somewhere, and you expect to help folks and have an impact, and they wind up with an effect on you,” he said. “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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