Tenerife and its social work with the Menas

The Foundation of CD Tenerife and the University of La Laguna have closed this week the first edition of the project Campus Sansoféwhich has worked with nearly a hundred unaccompanied minor migrants from different parts of Africa.

This project, which aims to promote inclusion through football, has made it possible since November for young people to meet two days a week for training: “In the end we always worked with groups of 20, because there is a lot of mobility. Many went to other places and new guys came throughout the season. They all tried to transmit the values ​​of Tenerife and they were aware of the shield they were wearing. representing,” says Daniel Rodriguezone of his trainers.

The sessions, directed by two coaches, were carried out with groups of 20 boys from various areas of Africa such as Senegal, Morocco, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Maliwho also belonged to Fundación Coliseo centers and the Las Raíces and Las Canteras camps.

In them, unaccompanied minor migrants wore the kits of Club Deportivo Tenerifewhich were given to them at the start of the Sansofé Campus, as well as football boots that were donated by the captains of the first team and by the centenary ambassador and former blue and white footballer, Suso Santana.

The initiative, as it counts Miguel Llorcaretired teacher, member of the African Studies Classroom and its main supporter, arose as a result of the great demand to practice soccer that was transmitted by the boys who attended Spanish classes last year.

“They have enjoyed and they don’t stop giving thanks. When you listen to their stories, their origins and create a bond, you think that if the whole world came to see this project, many ideas and prejudices would be removed from their heads”, concludes Daniel Rodríguez.