We started out by encouraging each participant to complete a PLAYER PROFILE. This allows each individual to introduce themselves to their new friend. We hope to use soccer as platform to connect individuals on two different continents who may have never met otherwise.
The PLAYER PROFILES contain information like age, number of years playing soccer, position played, and favorite soccer memories as well as personal information about the youth's family in Cameroon and their favorite passtime (we are pretty sure its soccer!).
Our CFDP team in Cameroon is working now with our two schools to assemble the youth and take some PICTURES too!! Soon, YOU will be able to see the connections once they are made!! Many more good stuff to follow...
These two beautiful women are an example of the wonderful friendship that is creating with Cultural Immersions like this one CFDP hopes to facilitate for our friends in Montreal.
My friend Liz traveled to Cameroon in 2007 and 2008 and worked with us to build the water supply system in Barombi Village. Karen, also known as "Mami", made sure we felt at home in our two-room school house for the two months we spent in the village. She and Liz often spent hours preparing meals for our team. I currently find myself regularly asking Liz for recipes for Cameroonian dishes- which she recorded in her journal as Mami Karen offered them from memory. CHOP FINE !!! (Pidgin for 'We ate very well!)
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