Hello and welcome to a special cynic feature. I'm your host, Claire Wilde. Today's podcast focuses on Ladi Celtic, a football academy based in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank. Managed locally by the Laji Centre and supported internationally by the Green Brigade,

the mission of Laji Celtic is simple and powerful to provide young Palestinian refugees

with a fully equipped and professionally supported footballing environment.

We spoke to Mack and Mohammed about the history and foundation of Laji Celtic

and the important work that they are carrying out.

We discussed the Laji Centre in the refugee camp in Bethlehem and the relationship between

the Centre and the Green Brigade and much more besides. Thank you very much for listening. I hope you

enjoy this conversation. Hello and welcome.

Many of you listening will know that I am Claire Wilde from The Cynic and I am here today with

Mohammed and Mack who are at the Laggie Centre.

Hi, how both of you?

How are you doing?

Good, good, all good.

Yeah, Mac, how are you?

I'm very good, thanks. Glad to be sitting here in and Idaq. I'm always great to be here.

Thanks for having us on. No, it's really important and really great to be able to have set up this conversation with you. I think we wanted to have this

conversation and then when we found out that you were actually there at the moment, we thought

why not bite the bullet and do it now? And it's a great time to be able to kind of talk about the

project and what you're doing. But, Mack, do you want to just tell us a little bit about you're in

Palestine at the moment. As you mentioned, you're in Ida camp. Talk a little

bit about why you're there and the process of getting there because I know that it wasn't the

easiest. Yeah, so I'm obviously in Ida currently. The reason I'm here is to touch base with

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