A group of kids who have created an informal baseball team are taking on the mantle of citizens-ambassadors as they prepare to head to Cuba for the 2016 Philly-Cuba Goodwill Tour, writes Michael Matza for Philly.com.

The team was assembled a few months ago by a handful of baseball loving friends from Philadelphia’s suburbs, with the majority of them from Lower Merion.

The plan is to leave on Boxing Day and play five games against a premier Cuban youth team, returning home on New Year’s Day. The trip was originally planned as a rare opportunity to experience the beloved sport inside baseball-obsessed Cuba, but has since taken on a deeper purpose.

According to the tour organizers, the point of the trip is to act as citizen-ambassadors at a time when President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to end the rapprochement between the two countries started two years ago under President Obama.

“It would be foolish not to take the president-elect at his word,“  said Alan Tauber, a lawyer from Philadelphia, who helped conceive the goodwill tour along with his wife, rabbi Andrea Weiss. “Others in the future may not have this opportunity.”

Read more about the trip at Philly.com by clicking here.