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PRESS RELEASE
26 January, 2010
Bay United Soccer Club Inc.
Haitian Youth Soccer Fundraising Campaign
Juggling for Haitians Charity Event
The Bay United Soccer Club’s (BUSC) Board of Directors unanimously approved the establishment of a Haitian Youth Soccer Fundraising Campaign. BUSC, a local nonprofit organization committed to promoting youth soccer in Northwest Florida, has provided competitive youth soccer programs in our area since 1991. The goal of the campaign is to provide financial support and material resources to Haitian youth soccer programs. BUSC President Darrel Hallmon announced the club will initiate the campaign by sponsoring a soccer ball juggling charity event at Panama City’s Frank Nelson Park, 4201 W 23rd Street on Saturday, February 6th from 11 am to 1 pm. Although BUSC will target participation from the growing number of Bay County youth soccer players, the event will be open to general public. The BUSC coaching staff will conduct periodic informal ball handling clinics and offer participants tips for mastering their juggling and other related skills. The event is intended to provide local youngsters the opportunity to demonstrate citizenship by supporting a cause they share with fellow soccer players in Haiti who must now endure even greater hardship following this most recent monumental natural disaster.
A charitable donation to the campaign can be made at the event. The club is encouraging all participants to collect pledges from local businesses, neighbors, relatives and friends and suggests a pledge of $5 per half hour of juggling. Pledge forms can be printed off, filled out and turned in at the event on Saturday, February 6 from 11am to 1pm at Frank Nelson Park.
Haitian Health Foundation (HHF) Soccer Program Pledge Form
All proceeds from this event will be sent directly to the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF) Soccer Program: “The Next Generation of Healthy Women”. A prerequisite for joining this soccer program requires Haitian youths to attend a 6 day course on female reproductive health. The HHF was founded by Dr. Jeremiah J. Lowney following a 1982 Port au Prince trip he made to provide free dental care. Over 92 percent of HHF’s funds collected go directly to services for the poor. For more on HHF’s Soccer Program please visit: www.haitianhealthfoundation.org/index.php/programs/special-projects/ .
For more information on this event and how you or your business can contribute to this and other campaign activities please contact Steve Crowley, BUSC’s Haitian Youth Soccer Fundraising Campaign Chairman via e-mail at katstevecrowley@aol.com or call 850-814-6738.
For more information call Darrell at (850) 624-4397 or email us at busc@comcast.net
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