The founder of FANT SL, a Danish charity using football to improve the lives of young people in Freetown's slum communities, Eric Rasmussen is in Sierra Leone with two journalists and a medical doctor from Denmark "to help in the fight against the Ebola virus."
According to him, the team which will be in Sierra Leone for ten days, will work with eight vulnerable communities in Freetown with employees being football coaches and community organizers.
He said Dr. Monica Kujabi will teach the community workers how to create awareness among their people about the Ebola virus and basic prevention methods like mixing chlorine using the medical kits supplied to the communities.
Prior to the arrival of the team from Denmark, the Freetown office was engaged in a community to community sensitisation drive on Ebola, in collaboration with the Sports Ministry.
FANT-SL officials say the young footballers in their various teams would be considered for scholarships so that they get an education "to prepare them for life after football...and for even those end up taking football as their career".
The team from Denmark promised to return to Sierra Leone after the exercise in the hope that the Ebola outbreak "will end soon to allow us kick off the normal football project.
© Politico 21/01/15
