Hi, my name is Federico Coppini, founder of the international Tennis World Publishing group. As you can hear from my accent, I am Italian … but I have fallen in love with Africa and spend most of time in a small city called Stellenbosch, just north of Cape Town, in South Africa. During my time here, I have come to understand what devastating poverty looks like, and what touches me the most are the children in these poor communities. I knew that I had to do something, and started offering tennis coaching in the Kayamandi Township, which is a predominantly black and severely impoverished area. The interest in my coaching started growing and I set out to try and understand why these children were so keen to join . What I realised was simply that playing tennis made them happy and they were drawn to me, as a safe and constructive adult influence in their lives. This lead me to start the Tennis World Foundation , in order to reach more children in this way. What starte...