AS Roma football campaign leads to missing boy’s reunion with family
By DW
18 September 2019 |
9:00 am
A campaign by Italian football team AS Roma led to the successful recovery of a missing Kenyan teenager. The team has been using social media since June to help find missing children around the world.
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