Monday, May 31, 2010

6th June 2010

Hi everyone,
We are approaching the Soccer World Cup in 5 days time in this country. It has created a mad fixation with soccer amongst our orphans. They play mostly on the streets in front of our centres, and there is always a tussle between the girls who want to play netball and the boys who want to play soccer! If they haven't got a soccer ball they make do with one made of plastic shopping bags and string. Goals are marked with boxes or whatever they can find that is useful.


Some very kind and generous young people from our local sugar mill TSB have arranged to have portable soccer goalposts made for street soccer and portable netball posts. Someone has also donated quite a few netballs and soccer balls.


We have bought 700 blankets this year and most of them have been handed out already.