Presents.

My friend Katie from the U.S. told me a few weeks ago she had shipped me a package. Packages are like Christmas here and so therefore I was beyond myself excited about finding out what inside that little box she sent.

About a month later I finally received her promised package and inside it was filled with soccer socks, two jerseys, and a pair of shin guards. The shin guards were also quite large, man size, and so as soon I saw the very large shin guards and what the package contained, I knew exactly who these items were to go to, my one soccer boy Eric and to a few other boys on my U16 soccer team.

This Sunday I handed out the items. When I informed Eric that the shin guards were his because he was both the captain and a very tall/ large boy he was ecstatic. I wish you could have seen the smile on his face! He just kept smiling and saying thank you coach, thank you. I wish you could have been here to see it.

Below is also a picture of another friend who has donated equipment. My friend Shami is a generous business man here in Kigali. He has many different businesses with one being screen printing. Over the last couple of months, he has personally donated enough shorts for my entire team and a few jerseys. In the next few months, he says he is determined to provide us with not just shorts for the whole team, but also jerseys and socks too. He wants to provide them with new and complete uniforms. That is pretty amazing to me.