Soccer is the game!

This morning I heard shouts and cheers coming from the yard behind the school.  Looking out, I saw that a major soccer game was in progress.  It was recess time at school and just about the entire student body was gathered, either playing or cheering a team on to victory.  The student soccer players all went back to class when recess time was over.  Soccer is played here every day.  The little ones kick around a small ball, the teens and adults play serious soccer.  Local soccer players have set up a playing field on parish property, a flat parcel of land near the road.  Every night soccer players and spectators gather for a game.

After watching the end of the soccer game, I went to the school.  There I found our dedicated people, Lumenn, Murielle, Jabon, and Lunise, serving up rice and bean sauce for the students.  I arrived as the middle grades were eagerly and patiently waiting for their bowl of food.  I have visited the homes of many of these students and I know that many of them had no breakfast before going to school.  South Florida Haiti Project provides a nutritious meal each school day to all the students and staff.  In the days before the feeding program, many children had serious malnutrition.   South Florida Haiti Project feeds hungry minds with education while feeding hungry bellies with nutritious life-sustaining food.