Foundation aims to expand volunteering push to colleges

By Charlotte Tubbs

Motivated by a love of soccer and a desire to help children, 24-year-old Hunter Riley of North Little Rock will travel thousands of miles this summer to organize teams in Cameroon.

But Riley, a student at the Clinton School of Public Service, decided to expand his summer project when he heard about a new Clinton Foundation initiative designed to involved college students in addressing global issues.

Riley is collecting soccer uniforms and soliciting donations so he can deliver cleats, shin guards and soccer balls to AIDS orphans and other Cameroon youth affected by poverty. In addition, he plans to start a pen-pal program between the Cameroon soccer players and the soccer players at his alma mater, North Little Rock High School.

“In doing this it will show the children that they are worth believing in and inspire each child to find hope in their own lives,” Riley wrote to the Clinton Foundation, describing his effort. “To be able to have cleats or to have their own soccer ball can help these children gain a greater self-confidence and thus better their lives.”

For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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