Jorsein has been in America for four years. His favorite thing is the soccer team.

He is an honor student in his middle school, and is shy. Like the other players, he misses the freedom he had to walk around his neighborhood, play soccer barefoot and go where he pleased.

He very much loves the trips the soccer team is now undertaking, thanks to the Army Of Good. For the first four years of his life here, he did not once get to go outside Albany except for a soccer game or two.

He is happy to see more of America and to learn about it. His family now is the soccer team, he lost much of his family  back home.

Thanks for helping Jorsein to see the world and learn about America. Like the other players, he has increasingly been taunted by American students in the school, who make fund of his hand-me-down clothes and even suggest he doesn’t belong here.

I told him there are many people who believe that he does. If you wish to help Jorsei, you can contribute to the Gus Fund, c/o Jon Katz, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816, or via Paypal, [email protected].