Mt. Angel’s Kennedy Trojans finished the 2009 season as second in the state for 2A football, but their dream season was not over. They made another dream come true. Five members of the team accompanied by coach and Spanish teacher David Stavros and his wife, Gina, went to Lima, Peru over Christmas break to dedicate a home for a family that was built with money the team raised earlier this year.
The Kennedy High School football team and its supporters recently completed a series of fundraising projects to help fund a home for a family living in the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Together they raised $10,000 to assist a family currently living in a cardboard and scrap lumber hut build brick homes.
By Vince Teresi Rosanna and Geremias Rivera Durand and their three children live in a one-room cardboard/scrap lumber house with a dirt floor and corrugated tin roof in the shantytown of Flores de Villa in Peru. The minimum wage in Peru is equivalent to $185 a month. Realizing they have the power to make a difference and help people like […]
