Local youth teams donate soccer balls to kids in Haiti
Published in The Westborough News, November 19, 2009
WESTBOROUGH – Westborough residents Trish Reske and Tom Slicklen visited the Caribbean nation of Haiti earlier this month with a precious cargo: Soccer balls.
And if you don’t think soccer balls would mean much in a country beset by widespread poverty, Reske would tell you otherwise.
“Kids there will bunch together plastic bags and play soccer with that,” she said. “To get a real soccer ball – it’s like Christmas.”
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