User:Jerry elliott

I was Born in Western Nigeria in a village called Oke Ora; we had neither running water nor electricity. But a primary school and in the 1980 we became a secondary school I grew up with many brothers and sisters, my father had four wife’s and had as many kids as he could, Since in our tradition is getting as many kids as you can to do the farm work. I spent most of my time at the Farm. I had are hard time with many problems in the family, coming home from school to quarrelling, nagging and fighting family, And most times my mother and me where beating and sent away from home, and some time not having food to eat Thank God for Boxing it gave me strength to go on. My Mum sent me to one of my sisters in Lagos. At the church Living Faith I made friends and we decided to move to Europe. My destination was Austria, but I was abandoned in Cairo, from there I went to Istanbul, where I had to leave over one year in a hard condition. I found my way to Jerusalem, but got sent back to Istanbul I later join a group of refugee trying to gross the sea with a fishing boat and then true mountains into Greece, we did got caught and sent to Kiliminor prison later to Kos, where I spent almost one year. I went to Athens, to Italy, Belgian, later Holland and ended up in Germany where I had to live on the street on cold night’s later sleep with drug and alcohol addicts some times me sleeping some one urinating on me. But later I found my way and made my carrier in boxing, singing and helping children. MCP FOR Kids After having won 3 titles WBC and the IBF International and fighting for the world titles I grounded MCP e.V. for kids. More info: www.mcp-cologne.com. MCP, e.V. was set up so that kids, who have not gotten the opportunity to train, can have a place where they don’t have to pay and train for free. Some of those kids are from poor families. Others are filled with anger because of their social problems. Some of them have migration background; others are seeking for something they can hold into. Each time I see those kids, I am ´being remembered of myself. Working with those kids has become a part of my life and I always tell them, that life can change if you want it to. You have to stand up and face your problems, even when everything around you looks like a mess. In Jerry Elliott Boxing Gym as of today, are over 30 kids who train every week for free. There is also Make a Change, a project for schools where they are invited to visit us to do fitness boxing. During this time, I also used the opportunity to let them know the important of sport and secondly for them to have a perspective in life. Also I talk about my past as form of motivation, the Make a Change team also help youths in choosing the right way and helping them on this way. And those who want to go on doing fitness boxing are giving the address to the nearest boxing studio. Make a Change is not just boxing, but poems, photos, short stories and songs, this as a form of expressing.