FORMER healthcare assistant Naomi Hargreaves was so inspired by the work of the Faith and Football charity that she decided to devote her life to it.
Naomi, 29 who works full-time for the charity at the Pompey Study Centre in Fratton, first became aware of Faith and Football in 2004 when she attended a presentation at Fratton park about a mission trip to India.
“I spoke to a lot of people that evening,” she said, “and then a few weeks later I got a call from Linvoy Primus asking me if I wanted help out.”
Naomi’s work was rewarded in 2005 when she took part in a fundraising trip to the Great Wall of China with Linvoy Primus and fellow faith and football founders Darren Moore ad Wayne Jacobs.
Naomi said: “I remember one particular night when we stayed in a village, there was a really poor man who had a back problem and couldn’t afford medical treatment. We did a wip-round to help him and it turned out we’d raised three months of his wages.”
Naomi raised £2,000 from sponsorship herself.
Since then she has gone on to co-ordinate the ‘Extra Time’ literacy scheme which helps to improve the reading skills of year-two school pupils through bible stories. She also helps to run the charity’s Community Football leagues and is involved in ‘Team Talk,’ a project which teaches life skills to groups of disengaged young males.
But it’s Naomi’s personal faith that drives her: “I made a decision to give my life to God,” she said. “I think in this modern world we need faith to help us to solve the problems we are facing.”
For more information about Faith and Football visit:http://www.faithandfootball.org.uk/
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