At 18, Jan van Hövell brought a soccer ball to the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana during a 2004 internship with the UN Refugee Agency. He said it was a terrible system, just one ball from one intern, and thousands of kids with nothing to do.
“I was the one bringing my football, and we would play, and we would connect, and we would have good times,” he says. “But I was also the one bringing my football, and I thought this couldn’t be the solution.”
