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Pub's taking shirts off customers' backs
Wednesday, 5pm - A BOSTON pub is taking the shirts off its customers' backs - in a bid to give youngsters a World Cup to remember.
As Fabio Capello leads his English Lions to South Africa this summer, the Spirit of Endeavour and its regulars are hoping they have done enough to make the tournament extra memorable for kids both here and in the host nation.
Project Fair Play is attempted to kick poverty into touch.
Bostonians are being asked to dog out their old unwanted football shirts – especially junior sizes – and donate them to the Marsh Lane pub and restaurant.
The kits will be taken directly to disadvantaged youngsters at the Ukhanyo School in Masiphumelele, South Africa, where they can wear them during the tournament.
Pub manager Donna Edmunds said: "Knowing how much our customers love their football, we're sure there's going to be no shortage of old shirts coming out of the closet for the Shirt Amnesty.
Project Fair Play is set to make this year's World Cup even more special for everyone at the pub, as we enjoy the on-pitch excitement knowing that we're helping to make football a fantastic experience for youngsters here and in South Africa too."
The Spirit of Endeavour also wants to raise enough cash to build a new sports ground at the school through the Happy Africa Foundation and kit it out with 500 new Alive and Kicking footballs, so the kids are ready for kick off.
Despite the World Cup being held in South Africa, millions of children there have never played football, or 'diski' as they colloquially call it, with a real ball.
The specially created Alive and Kicking balls are tough, repairable footballs made using African skills and African leather specifically for use on African terrain.
Each ball carries an important message about HIV/Aids and malaria.
Project Fair Play also aims to buy Fairtrade footballs to help sports projects for disabled and disadvantaged kids in the UK.
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