Champion gift from pupils for overseas footballers
Football-mad youngsters from The Gambia are looking just champion after kind-hearted players from a Bridgnorth team donated their kit.
AFC Bridgnorth Spartans gave kits to children from Mandinari Lower Basic School in the western region of the country. Pupils from Bridgnorth's Castlefields Primary School also donated stationery, and the school received Abooku Reading Scheme resources, including reading books to help them practice their phonic sounds at home.
Castlefields and other West Midlands schools helped pay for the scheme to the tune of £5,474 through their own fundraising.
The Bridgnorth school's headteacher Jackie Hampson took the kit over and joined other teachers from the West Midlands taking part in the initiative.
