By Camila Urbina | Communicator
The most wonderful part of our work is when we see the dream of one of our beneficiaries come true! This why we are thrilled to share the story of Andres David Carrillo from Cartagena. Andres David is16 years old and he loves soccer more than anything else, his life-long dream was to play for his city's team the Real Cartagena.
Andres is currently coursing the 9th grade at the Institución Educativa República de Líbano, our organization became aware that he was working after school and thus had no time for concentrating on this education or playing sports. So in March of 2012, we invited him to enter our program, he gladly accepted our invitation not knowing that this would bring him closer to his most cherished dream.
He immediately join the soccer club as his extracurricular day activity, which allow him to train, sharpen his skills as a footballer and kept him away from working after school. Thanks to Rafael Montes his teacher and coach, his dream was a step closer, when he encourage him to try out for the Real Cartagena's Under 17 team; to everyone's amazement, he made the team!
Andres David played for the Real Cartagena in a national tournament which involved 187 teams from all over the country, and was recognized as one of the best left backs in the tournament. Thanks to your donations, he, like many more boys and girls, is living his dream, far away for child labor, focusing on his studies and training to reach his superstar potencial!
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