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LOCAL Wednesday 9 december 2020

Aruban youngsters participate in Football for Friendship 2020

ORANJESTAD — Sheqayli Sheqayli, 14-year-old, became a Grand Final which will be broad- other, and it was nice seeing how
Ascenсion and Jaydon Nicolaas F4F Award expert. She was a part cast live on YouTube on December all of them had different interests,”
are representing Aruba at the Gaz- of the jury during the International 9, 1 pm. Sheqayli will be the one the Aruban shares.
prom International Children’s So- Football for Friendship Forum. The to participate in the Grand Final
cial Program Football for Friendship jury consisted either of the adults show too. By now there is a short Despite her experience Sheqa-
2020. This year the project is held who are working in the football list of the projects and who are the yli was among the first to join the
online on November 27 – Decem- sphere for many years or of sever- main candidates on receiving the Good News Editorial Office when
ber 10. Despite the fact it moved al F4F Young Ambassadors of the award. the pandemic started. Young jour-
digital, Football for Friendship kept program, so Sheqayli was among nalists of the program shared some
its traditional events such as ex- them as she participated in Foot- “It was a wonderful experience positive news from their countries
perts’ forum, Friendship Camp and ball for Friendship in 2018. for me. As for me one of the most and regions to support people all
Press Center for children and even interesting projects was ‘Show us around the world. As a part of the
the World Championship where This season all the forum partici- your hobbies’ by Zenit Gazprom Good News she did an interview
usually boys and girls were play- pants were sharing their projects academy where they shared their with the Aruban footballer Ronald
ing in mixed teams that became a and initiatives connected with hobbies through a short video, I re- Gomez.
World Championship as the orga- football that were launched dur- ally liked that they not only helped
nizers created a football simulator ing the global lockdown. The win- them with football but also their
to play the game online. ner of the F4F International Award own hobbies and so they could
will be announced during the get to know more about each Continued on Page 10
“Football for Friendship is a won-
derful program,” Sheqayli said.
“And it is really important that the
organizers were able to keep it
and move it into the online format
despite all the circumstances. This
project supports, inspires and mo-
tivates children all over the world!
But I believe we still miss that hu-
man touch where we can mingle
and chit chat in person. The person
to person connection is very impor-
tant.”