My name is Ibrahim Shaibu

13/11/2006

I am a native of Ghana. I ended my education at the secondary school level since there is no support here. I would have ended my schooling at the primary, but since I was a footballer I manage to go Junior Secondary School and Senior Secondary School. I played football in two neighbor countries. My football carrier came to an end when had a fracture. I then join the coaching course ,help people who stand a chance of facing the same problems. I also present grassroots sports (local and Rural)as a leisure work.

Tamale is the capital town of northern region. It is one of the biggest in Ghana with relatively low population as compare to most region. Main occupation is peasant farming (hand to mouth)Rural urban migration is also high in the area. It is also rated
as one of the malaria pandemic and guinea worm area. It is a good place for livestock rearing.

The project is a community base project. It is made up of three deprive areas. Namely Tamale Rural (Gurugu Yapalsi),savelugu and Bogunaayili.It exposes the rural and deprive children talents and also made them to feel that they are part of the larger community. Ben Carpenter came earlier, went round with us to visit the children, to tell them about their missions and looking forward for the coming of another Ben Hayman which the children named asBen1andBen2.You went round communities by telling them life in UK and the children told you about life in Ghana. You coach the
children and taken them through some drills.

You teach, council the children about their life. You organize gala games and party for the children. Some of the children won prices.

I hope that the project would be expanded also if the children can be help to be able to also participate in the domestic league so that the parents who still don't what to releases their children to go to school would look at the others and release them. I also hope that goal Ghana would leave long to support the deprive children. Since the children are always willing to see their two friends from UK {Benl and Ben2} I would urge you to always send down word of advice to them. Since the rural people have football as the only sports, I strongly believe that their ambition of playing the Domestic colts league would come to pass. I also hope that four years to come we would be able to bring some of them to great people in the community.

On the part of education all children under our programme all of them are in school. On the part of soccer, I must say it is fantastic. Some of them are now in the regional teams and years to come they would spring better and better.

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