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'Seeing it helping those kids was incredible' - Williamson's pride as Arsenal launch Jakarta coaching scheme

The Gunners defender travelled to Jakarta to launch the club's new project Coaching for Life, which has been created together with Save the Children

It wasn’t until she was sat on the plane heading back to London that it begun to dawn on Leah Williamson what she had just experienced during her three-day stay in Jakarta.

Arsenal’s 22-year-old defender had been in Indonesia to help launch the club’s pioneering new project, Coaching for Life, a programme run alongside Save the Children aimed at protecting youngsters in some of the world’s toughest places by building their courage through football.