The World Cup

We all know how important Super Bowl Sunday is to most people in the United States. Everyone throws a huge party and we all gather around the TV to cheer for our favorite team (go Colts!). Now imagine no one in your city being able to watch the game. You long to see it with your own eyes because it’s just not the same hearing about the game. We want to watch it ourselves! Haiti’s equivalent to the Super Bowl, or the World Series, or the NBA Championships is the World Cup. Boy they sure get excited about it! The problem is, most people don’t have access to watch the games because no one has electricity. In an effort to fix that problem, Lifeline set up a TV so people in our village can enjoy watching the games.


We had to run an extension cord from the guard house to the hill so the TV works. The Haitians cut trees and used tarps in order to shade the TV so they could see it. This is a perfect example of one of the things we take for granted in the US. Just a simple thing like setting up a TV takes lots of work in Haiti. It’s a joy for us to give them the pleasure of watching the games. By the way, in Haiti, their favorite team is Brazil. They have flags posted everywhere. They all wear their team’s shirts. The Haitians all crowd around eagerly to cheer on their team. Even when we’re up in the mission house, we know when someone has made a goal because of their loud boisterous cheering!