Press Release – August 14, 2013

Recently the Belize National Football Team has been receiving generously from the Belizean population but on Wednesday,  July 31 they gave back a little.  While in the USA before the last game the team was challenge to bring back a small gift for a needed child in Belize.  Team Jaguars rose to the challenge and each donated US$20.00 to purchase a school bag to bring back home for the kids.  Team captain Dalton Eiley handed over the money to Senior V.P. Sergio Chuc to purchase the school bags.

Yesterday Team members Trevor “Burga” Lennen and Danny Jimenez were in Bullet Tree Falls village in the Cayo District to hand over 50 school bags to needy kids from the Bullet Tree Roman Catholic school.  Mr. Victor Pott, the school principal gathered the kids he thought most needed the bags.  Village council chairman Cyril Pott and the Premier League deputy chairman, Al Westby, were on hand to see the gifts being distributed.