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Dear friends, (Tony Boursiquot - Reports from Haiti)
The community soccer field construction that star of hope is constructing in Dano Haiti is moving forward to completion.
The construction has started last year and scheduled to finish in the end of April 2016. The inauguration of the field will be May 17th. It is a community soccer field built near to 5 different schools in Dano. The goals is not only for youth to practice soccer that is Haitian favorite sport but also for schools to organize inter-school tournament for both gender: males and females.
Star of hope bought the land and built the field on a rocky hill spot in Dano with financial support from Swedish Soderber & Partners. To make land flat to build the play ground we use heavy equipment like bulldozer, excavator, loader, grader and compactor. It is not an international standard soccer field size but it is a big size field for U15 standard field. The property it-self size is 66m wide by 114m length. But game surface is 56x90m.
the soccer field has different parts:
- sanitary bloc with bathrooms, water system, septic, etc...,
- changing room and meeting room building
- spectators bloc,
- vip balcony seats,
- game field
- game field security fence
- property security fence.
I am sending you this update because the project is at last step of completion activities: step to grade the field with a last layer of send, install lighting equipment, activate landscaping and painting jobs and at the end compact the field with a vibrator and a 25Ton soil compactor.
Attached are some pictures taken this week to give you a better idea about progress made so far and to see it looks like a great size field for children and youth of Dano community.
Sincerely!
Antonio BOURSIQUOT
Project Manager
Star of Hope. Haiti
We still need your help with balls, equiepment, staff, visiting coaches and also to help this be a place to share the Word.
