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Motivation Monday: “One Life”
This isn’t a James Bond film (“You Only Live Twice”). We only have one life to live. What is yours going to be spent doing?
Worry about the way things could’ve been?
Wondering about the places you could’ve gone?
Thinking about the things you should’ve done?
Don’t. Make the most of today. And tomorrow. And the rest of your life.
You’ve only got one so don’t waste it.
“Foto Friday”
Wynston Ivey players a header game with a Nicaraguan boy in the streets of Managua.
Wynston and her mom Kim just returned from a LF trip and donated a dozen or so balls through Nicaragua.
Help support more missions like this at home and abroad by purchasing a Little Feet ball or jersey today!
Where in the world Wednesday!
The global game connects us all. Connect to the global game by supporting Little Feet’s mission to spread peace through sport, one ball at a time.
Motivation Monday: “Courage”
Dreams are just those if you don’t have the courage and the drive to see them through to the end.
Little Feet is about taking a dream to make the world a better place through soccer and using the collective courage of you, and everyone else that has bought a LF soccer ball or jersey, to make our dream a reality.
Most importantly the courage to fulfill our dreams helps make dreams of disadvantaged kids around the world a reality as well.
Courage: Found here at LittleFeet.com.
Three times the Little Feet fun! (Taken with Instagram)
Where in the World Wednesday?!?!
Where the heck is this floating soccer field?
Motivation Monday: Heart
What we do a Little Feet is not a full-time job. We’re not TOMS, we’re not UNICEF, we’re not Greenpeace. The people that make up Little Feet have day jobs, families, hobbies, and lives to lead. That’s not to take away any of the good works of these other organization… just an acknowledgement of the difference between our programs.
So that means when we get the time to do the work of Little Feet we go all out. We use our vacation days to distribute our LF balls, our weekends to plan trips, and our free hours to coordinate volunteers.
Every moment that we work on Little Feet is powered by “heart” and wherever we go our missions are fueled by passion for the project. There’s no galas or high-profile speakers, no telethons or pledge drives… just good ol’ elbow grease and sweat to get the job done.
And you… you are the most crucial element. When you lend your own heart and your own caring to our mission then we can do even more.
Foto Friday: La Chureca Dump, Managua, Nicargua
Little Feet missionary Kim Ivey (and her daughter) are off to Nicaragua again. Yesterday we interviewed her about the importance of giving, giving LF balls, and the power of soccer.
Today we’re featuring one of her submitted photos from her previous trip. A group of young boys playing with a Little Feet ball in the La Chureca dump of Managua, capital of Nicaragua.
Read more about La Chureca and it’s story with Kim’s interview.
Support missions like Kim’s and others spreading the Little Feet love by purchasing a ball today.
Kim Ivey’s daughter Wynston packs up our LF balls for an incredible journey!
Who are you and what organization are you travelling with?
My name is Kim Ivey. I live in Montgomery, Alabama and I am a former team manager (Go Streaks!), soccer mom and avid lover of the beautiful game. I will be traveling with my daughter, Wynston and 9 others from Heritage Baptist Church here in Montgomery. We will be partnering with the Open Hearts ministry in Managua.
Where are you going?
We are going to Managua,Nicaragua. We will be serving and working with families in La Chureca.
Describe La Chureca, the place and the people living there.
La Chureca is Managua’s city dump. Imagine the tallest sand dunes you’ve ever seen…now picture them as piles of trash instead of sand and that will give you a first glimpse of La Chureca. The smell is like one big trash dumpster and there are garbage trucks that rumble in and out all day long. Between the dust in the air and the dirt kicked up by your feet you are gritty from head to toe by the end of the day. There are large black birds that circle overhead and you get the eerie feeling that you’ve just stepped into an Edgar Allen Poe story. It’s a pretty dark place spiritually and emotionally.
The people that live there also work there. They pick recyclables and sell them for their living. Small children accompany their parents to work and sit in the trash while their parents pick. The families there use materials found in the dump to build their homes. There is a lot of abuse in La Chureca…drugs, alcohol, sex. There is a hopelessness that breeds there. The life expectancy of an adult in La Chureca is about 40 years because growing up in the dump is so harsh.
Yet, in the middle of the dump there is a school, Colegio Cristiano la Esperanza, the school of hope. Children from La Chureca under the age of 14 are encouraged to go to this school where they are educated, fed, taught hygiene and are given a hope for the future. Most of what we do this week will be with these children.
You previously brought some Little Feet balls down to Nicaragua. How were they received?
It was like Christmas each day of the week! Each afternoon we would go to La Chureca and play all sorts of games with the kids. Inevitably the games would turn into a soccer match and at the end of each afternoon we would leave a couple of balls with different kids. A couple of the guys from our group would come up to me just about every day and say “Hey Ms. Kim, there’s this kid and we’ve been playing with him…can we give him a ball?” And of course the answer was always yes! The kids knew when they saw us that soccer balls would there too. I think our guys had almost as much fun giving out balls as the kids were going to have playing with them.
How many balls are you bringing this time?
We are taking 10 balls this year. This trip is going to be a little different that last year. The group that is going this year could be best described as a rag tag team of former basketball, football and baseball players and coaches. Each afternoon they are hoping to do a different sport with the kids. My daughter is the lone soccer player and we’ll be giving the balls away after the soccer afternoon. As much as these guys want to play their American sports I have a feeling each afternoon will turn into a soccer match anyway…which is fine with me!
Why do you support Little Feet? Why should others?
I support Little Feet for simple reasons. Little Feet provides an opportunity for me to show kindness to a child that I will probably never meet. By purchasing one ball for myself I can also do something nice for a child who otherwise may not have an opportunity to enjoy playing and being a kid. I guess the question is why would you not want to support Little Feet? Every child deserves the opportunity to be a kid and to enjoy their childhood. Little Feet helps make that happen.
What is it about the power of giving, the power of a soccer ball, the power to have a chance to play?
Children do not get to choose where they are born. Children do not get to choose the family they are born into. Every child deserves a childhood no matter where they live in the world. The simple gift of a soccer ball could be the one moment in that child’s life that they are freed from the trappings of their day to day living. The benefit of giving is twofold. Maya Angelou said “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” There is power in freedom.
Where in the World Wednesday
You don’t have to be a geography genius to figure out today’s global soccer pic, but we thought we go for beauty rather than difficult this week!
Soccer under the Effiel Tower. It doesn’t get more symbolic of the world’s game that this. The world’s most popular sport with one of the world’s most recognizable attractions.
The game of soccer connects the globe and has the power to make a positive difference like few other things do.
Help Little Feet buy purchasing a ball and we’ll give one to a child in need or a LF jersey and help contribute to building soccer fields globally.
Make the pass!
