Dimitry Camille, a football player at Park Vista Community High School has a new friend. "He's really, really nice and he cares about your feelings." He told WPTV, "I feel like he's trustworthy, I feel that I can trust him with anything."
16-year-old Andrew Pollard cherishes the friendship. "He's nice." The "Spirit In Motion" program at the school sparked the friendship. It pairs up 25 football players with students with special needs.
The students have lunch together every Friday. They talk about sports, video games or about school-- realizing they have more in common than they think.
Marsha Morakis, a volunteer parent who came up with the idea said, "It doesn't matter that some of them are in the ESE program, and that some of them are football players, they are kids. and they have formed friendships, out of being kids."
Even though the football players are mentoring the special needs kids, in the end they are mentoring each other.
"Basically, he is like a family to me", said Dimitry.
