KM United teamed up with humanitarian Juliet Bill to donate their retiring shirts to young people in northern Iraq.
Madge Bailey, KM United Club Coordinator saw Juliet’s campaign working on a project to get footballs into camps and immediately offered to donate retired shirts.
Juliet handed over the shirts to ‘Team Khanke’ in Northern Iraq, when she visited the region in June.
Juliet said:
“The children of all ages were delighted because they are obsessed with football! They did cheekily say, they were a little disappointed they weren’t real Madrid shirts!”
She raised £3,000 at a fundraising event at The Old Bakery and travelled to Iraq to meet and support people some of whom are the remaining family members of some of those refugees she worked with in January and February in Greece.
They are all survivors of the ISIS genocide on Mount Sinjar in 2014. Juliet explained: “In August 2014, ISIS descended on the town and region of Sinjar in Iraq. They came quickly and decisively with one aim - torturous annihilation.
They massacred, murdered, tortured, humiliated and captured.”
As always, her trip was completely self-funded, and she says she has “completely fallen” for the people she has met.
You can contact Juliet through The Old Bakery, Kingsbridge, and you can find out more about KM United Football Club on their website: www.kmunitedfc.net
By Sam Acourt
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