Roger Federer Opens School Project in Malawi

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 at 12:54 pm , filed under Tennis News by Kevin Jones

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Switzerland tennis star Roger Federer has opened a new school project in Malawi aimed at enabling 54,000 poor children to go to school over the next ten years.

The $3.3 million (Sq Feats 2.75 million) program is to be set up with the Malawi division of the humanitarian organization Action Aid. The plans are to build 80 centers for poor children aged from three to five in six of the country’s twenty-eight districts.

According to the sources, as a father of two little girls, I see every day how children can learn extremely quickly if their surroundings are stimulating, the world number three, whose mother is South African, Federer said in a statement on Tuesday.

It is a great privilege for me and for my Action Aid foundation to help give children in Malawi a chance to fulfill their potential.

The centers will offer class books, ready classrooms, playgrounds to play and provide each child with a full meal.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa, half of the thirteen million populations live under the poverty line and more than three million children under the age of eight are chronically skin-and-bone.

Founded in 2003 year, the Roger Federer Action Aid Foundation helps almost 20,000 poor children in Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, S Africa as well as in Switzerland.

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