There’s a blue mist in Africa right now. UK Football’s Alex Montgomery, Austin MacGinnis, and Marcus McWilson have been in Africa this week on a service trip to Ethiopia. Not only has UK Football been flooding their Instagram with photos of the boys on their trip, but Nikki McLaughlin, the photographer who accompanied them, also shared her thoughts on the UK Athletics Cat Scratches blog,
I will never forget watching Marcus McWilson tirelessly pound nail after nail into mud homes so that several widows would be ready for rainy season. I will always remember watching Alex Montgomery quietly offer a big smile to each child who ran up for a chance to compare their (tiny) hand against his.