OUTGROWN junior football team shirts, shorts and socks have made their way to an African country where the young team is now awaiting a set of boots.

But, hopefully, they won't be long in arriving, if Embsay Junior under 17s squad have anything to to do with it.

The Embsay team is planning fundraising to buy second hand boots and is looking for donations from other footballers.

The kit has already winged its way to Chingalire in Malawi, thanks to the Embsay outfit and their coach, Paul Caultas.

Squad member 16-year-old Marty Fraser-Turner, from Grassington, said the old kit, which had been funded by Paul's employer, Labcentre, was now too small and they had decided to send them to Chingalire Rural Growth Centre where Paul had a connection with an overseas volunteer.

"This organisation, headed by Ben Michael Mankhamba, aims to educate the children of Chingalire in all walks of life. One of these is through sporting activities, but they lack many resources," said Marty, a pupil at Ermysted's Grammar School.

So excited at receiving the "new" kit, that the young Malawi team can be seen in the photographs playing in their socks.

The photographs of the Embsay squad shows the lads in the "Malawi" kit five years ago and in their new outfits. Marty is in the red boots on the front row.