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PNC Neighborhood Wishlist: Soccer Scores Big Pretty much everyday, as long as the weather's
nice I get to see our students playing soccer in the field. The students come here, free
of charge everyday to either get help with their homework or to meet their friends and
hang out. It really is an amazing site. Its kids who might struggle academically during
the day, they might have difficulty socially or making friends. And this kind of levels
the playing field for them. We had applied to PNC for the Neighborhood Wishlist. We saw
that there was a need for our community here to have better equipment, and better soccer
balls and nets for the youth that play in our community. So with the purchase of new
nets, now the students have place where they can play a legit game and not worry about
holes in the nets and balls flying through and that sort of thing. Once we received the
grant and the funding, we held a big event on a Saturday afternoon and we had kids from
the community come out. They could see the new nets and try out some new soccer balls.
If someone else asked me about the program, I would whole-heartedly tell them to go ahead
and apply for a project. It's a great way to get other people from the community to
partner with one another.