Equipment Count From Pittsburgh

Wow! Many thanks are due to Emilie, a Dorseyville Middle Schooler who recently engaged her family, friends, classmates, and neighbors in a soccer gear collection project for her bat mitzvah!! We just completed an inventory of all of the equipment donated by the Fox Chapel and surrounding Pittsburgh Communities!!

Here is what we got:

84 pair of soccer shoes
84 pair of soccer socks
78 soccer balls
51 individual jerseys
43 shin guards (used)
22 shin guards (brand new)
5 goalie gloves
4 complete uniforms (includes 12-14 matching jerseys and shorts)

One Mission: Improve the lives of African Youth.

We do not intend to accomplish this simply by handing out soccer equipment!!

Pittsburgh's soccer gear will facilitate weekly after school soccer sessions which incorporate life skills and health education in 10 schools in Kumba, Cameroon during the 2011-2012 school year.

Pittsburgh's soccer gear will reward youth who excel on the soccer field and who are engaged in discussion with their peers. The gear will be leveraged as an incentive to encourage individual participation and community involvement.

Pittsburgh's soccer gear will empower youth who may never have played the game with shoes or shin guards.

Salud-o, Yinzers!!!


Look at all those shoes!!!