00:00Well, former national football captain Clayton Morris is holding on to the mission for change.
00:05He believes that the battle is on to keep the youth away from violence.
00:08His main weapon to tackle the problem is football.
00:12Through his coaching clinic, which is currently ongoing every Sunday in St. Ann's, he believes
00:16he is causing change one day at a time.
00:19Firstly, he's trying to get them to enjoy playing the game first before implementing
00:23structure.
00:24We're trying to get them to enjoy it, right, first thing I try to get them to.
00:28So we're doing a lot of fun things, I do a lot of fun games, you know, like we brought
00:33something we call dead cockroach, where they're running down the center and the coaches trying
00:39to hit them with the ball.
00:40If you get a lash on your foot, you hop, then again, next left, you're crawling, you're
00:44crawling on all fours and then you get a lash again, you turn over and you're like a dead
00:48cockroach.
00:49So we're doing a lot of things with fun, right?
00:51But as I say, come January, it will be structured where we're emphasizing a lot on the motor
00:58Morris says the nature of violence has now changed and it's a battle to stay alive.
01:03What I realize is that you have a trend now.
01:07The moment anyone gets angry with another person, the first thing is is violence.
01:13And my thing is to let these children know most of us, I said, the under 10 children
01:18know that that is not the way because I remember growing up as a kid, we had plenty disputes
01:24about plenty different things and we would fight and fight.
01:28And then after we sit down on some mango and have up each other, you know, so my thing
01:32is to let these children know what is happening in the country now where somebody just got
01:37in a gun or they're telling somebody or they're hiring somebody to take another person like
01:42that is not the way.
01:44Morris is not alone in his quest for change in a project that started in his initiative
01:48to help reform individuals behind bars.
01:51Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
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