A recent e-mail message was about the importance of soccerballs. Greetings from the Congo. School will be starting next week here in the Congo. My thoughts are turning to children and soccer balls. Most of the time they are not playing with a real ball, but a mass of plastic bags and string that they have made themselves.
Soccer balls are too expensive for the average neighborhood gang.
This is not to say that they are not having a tremendous amount of fun playing with their own ball. Recently we received 158 soccer balls in seven cartons. This is really a wonderful thing to happen out here. We had to put our heads together to figure out what to do with all these soccer balls. Sometimes it can be difficult to give things away in the Congo.