5000 soccer balls for Project Play Niger 2007
Great idea. Would love to see it extended to Sudan, DRC and N Uganda. Project Play was conceived by Mike Mitchell, based on his experiences while serving in the Peace Corps in Niger from 1983 to 1985.
Mike arrived in the town of Zinder with a love for the game of soccer and a duffel bag containing 8 balls. Accordingly, the balls were his ticket into the lives of the local children. Within a short time Mike became an integral part of the provincial club team L'Equipe Espoir (Team Hope), which eventually won the 1984 Nigerian Championship.
Project Play's goal of returning to Niger with an estimated five thousand soccer balls, will be the first fruit borne of Mike's dream to reconnect with the children of Africa and enhance global understanding through sport.
[Source: banner advert at http://www.niger1.com/index.html]
Mike arrived in the town of Zinder with a love for the game of soccer and a duffel bag containing 8 balls. Accordingly, the balls were his ticket into the lives of the local children. Within a short time Mike became an integral part of the provincial club team L'Equipe Espoir (Team Hope), which eventually won the 1984 Nigerian Championship.
Project Play's goal of returning to Niger with an estimated five thousand soccer balls, will be the first fruit borne of Mike's dream to reconnect with the children of Africa and enhance global understanding through sport.
[Source: banner advert at http://www.niger1.com/index.html]
posted by Ingrid J. Jones at Sunday, February 25, 2007
5 Comments:
Please forgive the missing link and credit to source of link to Project Play. Believe it or not, I could not capture a link to niger1.com - I spent quite some time at the site, couldn't figure out what was going on - wondered perhaps if it was a robotic site for banner advertising that Blogger.com refuses to link to. I was overtired, loved the idea of sport helping young poor children in Africa - wanted to at least post it and check out your site again today to check it was real and if the link didn't work again and the site didn't appear to generating spam, spell it out in full. If you check out all my other blogs, you'll see how I always credit source/link each item and that I live in England, UK.
Ciao
volevo farti i complimenti hai un sito bellissimo un abbraccio dall'Italia
Elisa
Congratulations on a beautiful website
Loved everything on your site and you did a magnificent job. You should be proud of yourself
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Elisa
same comment as Elisa. Beautiful work...keep it up.
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Ooops I landed here by mistake, was looking for Niggerwatch.
great idea Ingrid. I wish you luck in collecting soccer balls. I enjoy reading this blog and the other African country watch blogs. Thanks for working so hard.
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