Former Arsenal Captain and new Arsenal Academy Manager, Per Mertesacker, has launched a ground-breaking new coaching programme in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan.
Arsenal and Save the Children have combined their expertise, funded by The Arsenal Foundation, to create a unique programme to improve the mental wellbeing of children affected by conflict and violence.
Over the last seven years, millions of children have been caught in the crossfire of the brutal war in Syria, witnessing horrors that no child should ever see. Za’atari is one of the world’s largest refugee camps and hosts nearly 80,000 Syrian refugees.