⚽️ Kicking for the Climate

🏆 Most athletes celebrate their scores by collecting trophies and recognition.

For 18-year-old  Lesein Mutunkei, however, he celebrates by planting trees 🌳.

• For every goal Lesein scores on the soccer field, he plants eleven saplings- one for each member of his team.

⚽️ Making it Official… The young athlete took his initiative a step further in 2018 when he founded Trees4Goals, an organization with a mission to mobilize young athletes in his region to take up his pledge of planting trees every time they score.

• He’s even trying to get FIFA onboard.

🗯 What He’s Saying… “Football is a universal game and climate change is a universal problem,” Lesein said. “[It] has the power to connect, engage, educate and inspire my generation to create a safer and greener future.”