2023-07-08 22:25:07
He seems far from the torments of PSG. While a media war is taking place with the club of the capital about its future, Kylian Mbappé visited Saturday in Cameroon a school whose association finances the renovation before going to the village of his father Wilfrid.
Dressed in an apple green raincoat with matching cap, and surrounded by an imposing security device, the star striker of the Blues made his way with difficulty on a muddy track in the middle of a jubilant crowd screaming his name. . Before climbing into a two-storey building to visit some of the 16 classes of the Bonendale bilingual school complex in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon.
On the third and last day of a visit to the country that his father left very young for France, the world football star came to see the progress of the renovation work of this nursery and primary school financed by his foundation Inspired By KM (IBKM).
The crowd was large to welcome Kylian Mbappé to Douala. Daniel BELOUMOU OLOMO / AFP) AFP or licensors
During the first two days of his visit, Thursday and Friday in the capital Yaoundé, Mbappé visited a school for deaf and hard of hearing children, which his foundation also finances, then spoke with Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute, including child aid projects in Cameroon, according to his entourage. At Bonendale School, the “local child” received a standing ovation, signing numerous football shirts for a multitude of children who rushed to touch him.
Traditional clothes and headdress
“When we got this news that we were going to build new structures, we said ‘wow!’. For us, it’s something, we are moved and we are proud that our son has thought of us, of his country, of his village to do something good for African children”, marveled Frieda Kesse, director of the Bonendale francophone kindergarten.
Kylian Mbappé then went by boat to Djébalé, where he was welcomed by the village chief and notables for traditional ceremonies. Taken to the sacred hut, reserved for rites and blessings, he came out ten minutes later in traditional clothes and headdress worn on the occasion of happy events by the Djébalé, members of the Sawa ethnic groups, named after the “peoples of the water”. » of the Cameroonian coast.
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