By Perrilee Pizzini | Project Manager
The boys and girls play on soccer teams during special "Sport Day" activities on Saturdays. All gather for practice and the special balls from the USA are brought out for all to use. The balls are so soft on the feet compared to the balls of wound-up string that sometimes are used when there are no balls available! It is so much fun the players almost can't stop!
After the drills and the practice games, there are snacks including juice. Then the players join in for some voluntary community service. Sometimes they simply walk around and pick up rocks from the soccer field. Sometimes, they help elderly people in the village with projects to improve their welfare. Recently, the team helped carry mud bricks to the building site of a new toilet out-house facility for one of the Villge elders whose helath did not permit them participating in the construction. The players are good workers, and when everyone helps out, the job is so much easier!
Learning to work together boith on and off the soccer filed helps build teamwork and cooperation and is one of the big success of the physical educaiton component of the overall community development work.Soccer balls are a key to help grow strong bodies and strong principles of goodwill.
Thank you for making this learning activity available for the Village children!
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