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PROVO -- The Timpview High School girls' soccer team will travel halfway around the world next week to teach soccer to girls in Africa. It's the farthest a girls' team from Utah has ever traveled for the sport, but they'll be teaching more than soccer to the orphaned children there.
Looking closely at video of a children's soccer game in Uganda, you won't see any girls on the field. The Timpview high girls want to change that.
"Girls over there see boys play soccer all the time, and they have no idea that they can play soccer. So, it will be awesome that they can see us play, and they'll say, ‘I can play soccer. I can do this," said Timpview senior Kathy Cannon.
Most of their families have been killed; and though that's hard for these Provo girls to relate too, they'll do it through soccer.
"Through the game of soccer we can tell them that they can have goals in soccer, but they can also have goals in life -- to get an education, to raise children," Cannon said.
The girls are also bringing paper, pencils and all sorts of school supplies for the kids. Then they'll get to have some fun. "We're going on safari. That will be fun," Timpview senior Jordan Murray said.
"This could be the coolest experience ever," Curtis said.
The girls all had to raise $5,000 to go there. They have a Web site that tells more about it. You can check it out by clicking HERE.
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