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Ted Ginn, Other NFL Pros on a Mission to Help African Children

By | Published on March 11, 2013
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Ted Ginn Jr., former Ohio State University wide receiver now San Francisco 49ers punt returner, is on a mission trip with Pros For Africa, helping hundreds of children in Uganda.

Ginn and his teammate NaVorro Bowman joined the mission this year along with other professionals, such as recently retired wide receiver Johnny Knox from the Chicago Bears.

The Pros For Africa team left March 2 for Uganda, where they’ve been partnering with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to provide hearing aids to those in need throughout the nation.

The group will also be traveling to the northern Ugandan town of Gulu to visit Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, a 2007 CNN hero award winner who runs St. Monica’s Tailoring Center. She gives women who have survived capture by the Lord’s Resistance Army throughout the region a new chance at a healthy and happy life for themselves and their children.

A visit to northern Uganda to Hope North, a boys’ school supported by actor Forrest Whitaker, is also scheduled.

The nonprofit mission, cofounded by NFL players Adrian Peterson, Tommie Harris,  Roy Williams and Mark Clayton, has taken more than 30 NFL players with them on this life-changing journey.

Source: newsnet5.com

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