In the Warmth of the NFL offseason, Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn has been in Tanzania, in East Africa, opening up a College.
Lynn, together with his wife, NBC New York news anchor Stacey Bell, helped fund a school in a rural Maasai village of Lanjani from the northern part of the country. In a telephone conversation with Jenny Vrentas of SI.com from Tanzania, Lynn recently detailed his summer-break visit to Africa.
“These kids were getting pushed to the work force as soon as possible, growing up without education in any respect,” Lynn said. “It was sad, as where do your own hopes and dreams come from in case you don’t have this? How do you know if you like science until you take a mathematics course? When I learned about the situation, I felt as though I needed to get concerned.”
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The faculty will help provide education for the rural population who has seen their way of life challenged lately by warmer weather and unpredictable rains because of climate change, along with several other regional obstacles. Classes are expected to begin this past week, per Vrentas, with roughly 300 boys and girls in grades K-3. Lynn hopes children will be offered another route by the school through education. Lynn explained to Vrentas some of the challenges the school is functioning through as it gets started. One example is the college opens in 10 a.m. each day because 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 his excursion.
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 football terms,” Lynn stated. “Plenty of times, once you can help develop these young men into better men, they’ll also become better football players. It’s something we will talk about. When you have the grit and toughness I have seen here in Tanzania, and also you put positivity behind this, you can do whatever you want to do.”
Lynn explained the excursion surprisingly could have left big an impression on him as it did to the kids he is helping.
“You know, you move someplace, and you expect to assist folks and have an impact, and they end up with an impact on you,” he said. “Their resiliency, their toughness, their mindset, their smiles. You see it and experience it, and it makes you appreciate everything you really have.”
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