For more than 20 years, the FC Barcelona Foundation has supported children in conflict zones around the world.
Now the Spanish soccer team's star player, Puyol, has gone even further.
Per the BBC, Puyol visited a project run by Save the Children in Colombia, where he met with children affected by the country's long and bloody civil war.
"For our Foundation, being able to implement initiatives in highly vulnerable communities such as these that are subjected to all forms of violence against children enables us to identify actions that will benefit the children and harness the immense transformative power of sport," the FC Barcelona Foundation's director general says in a press release.
Puyol, who played for FC Barcelona and is now an ambassador for the team, took part in a sports festival in Buenaventura, where he met with some of the children participating in the Save the Children's "Sentimos deporte" project, in which children from communities affected by the war have been given the chance to take part in activities that help them deal with their trauma and prepare for a "future of peace and hope."
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