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, along with his wife, NBC New York news anchor Stacey Bell, helped fund a school in a rural Maasai village of Lanjani in the northern portion of the nation. 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 in any respect,” Lynn stated. “It was miserable, as where do your hopes and dreams come from if you don’t have that? How do you know if you like science until you take a science course? As soon as I learned about the circumstance, I felt as though I had to get concerned.”
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The school will help provide education for the rural population that has witnessed their own way of life challenged lately by warmer weather and erratic rains because of climate change, along with many other local obstacles. Classes are expected to begin this week, per Vrentas. Lynn hopes kids will be offered another route by that the school . Lynn explained to Vrentas some of the challenges that the school is working through as it gets started. 1 example is that the school opens at 10 a.m. each day because lions feed to 9 a.m.
“These are things I never would have known if I didn’t come over here,” Lynn said of his trip.
Lynn said he intends 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 stated. “Plenty of times, once you can help build these young guys into better men, they will also become better football players. It’s something we will chat about: Doing more with less, and having the ideal mindset. Whenever you have the grit and toughness that I have seen here in Tanzania, and you place positivity behind that, you can do anything you want to do.”
Lynn said the trip surprisingly could have left big an impression on him as it did for the kids he’s helping.
“You know, you move someplace, and you hope to assist folks and have an impact, and they end up having an effect on you,” he said. “Their resiliency, their durability, their attitude, their smiles. You see it and experience it, and it makes you love what you actually have.”
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