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Third World Camp Stuck In First Gear
posted (May 12, 2015)
You may know Deon Flowers. He's the football star who walked away from the sport 16 years ago to become a community activist in Lake Independence. His passion has been reaching out to children and youths who are at risk of becoming involved in the Belize City gang life. He does that through his "Third World" summer camp.

He's presently preparing for this year's camp, but it seems to get harder every year. Today, he told us about the lack of sponsorship and he's asking for assistance to make sure that he doesn't disappoint the hundreds of children who depend on the summer camp:

Deon Flowers, Community Activist
"The program is one whereby every year, for 16 years, still going through hell and frustration. Jordan, Yellow and I, we sat down to talk and said we have done some mad work on the ground. And it's sick that to business people, we are people who are calm and cool. From the time we arrived there they had already known that its good things going on because we deal with kids for over 16 years. We aren't getting the real support. we have a few which we have to give respect to like Patrick Faber who sees the good work we do, Joseph and Taylor, SMART, KREM - Mose, I have to give him a shout out all the time because if it wasn't for him, when I stress out he says 'keep it up your doing a good job, keep on fighting'. It's them who make me strong. It was a great thing when he said 'don't worry about all the vanity and those things, worry about the work, respect and love. When you're gone you leave everything behind and that's all you carry with you. Respect and love'. That's why I deal with the kids because they are growing up tough and it's them who look out for this, they know how to find me. I know some people who know me as Deon Flowers, some of them know me as "Pussy," some of them know me as Flowers, but that's my name we can't disrespect that because I am a football star. This is our areas, this is our community. We don't only look out for our community but for people from all about, because we participate in SMART Mundialito right now. We don't rest at all because if the SMART Mundialito, straight into summer and as the summer goes, straight into under 17, them straight into ourselves. We're trying to help out, this isn't only boys, and this is boys and girls. When we talk about summer, we deal with all sports, I am the only club which deals with all sports. My club right now includes football, basketball, checkers, dominoes because my team's name is "Third World Sports in Education.""

Those interested in sponsoring the event can reach Flowers at telephone number 607-8785.

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