Per Mertesacker has helped Arsenal and Save The Children launch a coaching programme at Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan. The Arsenal academy manager visited the camp to help set up the new initiative, that has been 18 months in the making. Arsenal and Save The Children's new scheme is being piloted in Jordan and Indonesia, and Mertesacker recently paid a visit to the Za'atari camp, that houses nearly 80,000 Syrian refugees. "When children suffer - we all lose; people have fled their country and I have no experience of that, so I talked to them and learnt a lot," said Mertesacker, who was Arsenal captain until he retired in the summer. "It was a privilege for me to visit. The...
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