Sir Bobby Robson Foundation Reaches Out To Africa
By Tyne-Talk
June 14 2010
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation has been involved in a huge distribution effort of scarfs & shirts along with RAF Shrewsbury based "taking football to Africa and beyond appeal" & Kitaid. Sir Bobby Robson's son Mark Robson represented the Foundation to take the memorial shirts, scarfs & teddies that were left at St James' Park to African schools in the most under-privileged parts of the country.
Coast Soccer FC in Whitley Bay and the England 2018 Bid team also donated shirts and scarfs.
Mark Robson told the official Newcastle United website;
“We had a very successful week, and visited some desperate places. Fortunately on our travels we had the assistance of the British High Commission in Nairobi without whom the trip would not have been possible.
It is difficult to describe the feelings on handing out such things to these people. The school we went to in Kibera had 530 kids, 438 of which are orphans, and a lot are also HIV positive.
As well as this trip, my brother Paul went to Liberia with CAFOD to hand out the shirts, KitAid also took several boxes to Tanzania and Gambia. Basically every shirt/scarf/teddy bear that was left after Dad died made it to a child in Africa.”
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