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Operation Play Baseball

Operation Give wants to take the Game of Baseball to Iraq and Afghanistan. Through your kind and generous donations of new and slightly used Baseball Equipment, the Troops will be able to play ball amongst them selves and will also be able to set up teams for the children in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to teach them the game of Baseball. Boys and Girls of all ages will be able to play this great all American sport and will learn a lot more than just Baseball.

Operation Give will collect and ship the Baseball equipment to the Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and arrange for the distribution to the troops and ultimately to the children.

FedEx, our Shipping partner, will provide FREE Shipping from anywhere in the U.S. to our Salt Lake City Warehouse. However, donations are needed to help us cover shipping costs from our Salt Lake City warehouse to Kuwait and on to the Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Operation Play Soccer

WHAT DO CHILDREN IN THE US AND CHILDREN IN IRAQ HAVE IN COMMON?

A great love for soccer! Children in Iraq and Afghanistan love soccer so much, they’ll play the game with any kind of ball they can get their hands on, including rocks. In the USA our children are fortunate to have the all the resources and soccer supplies they need and more. And I am sure all of you have extras that are slightly used or ones that are now too small. We would like to give everyone an opportunity to donate their new or slightly used equipment, in order to help put cleats on the feet and soccer balls in the hands of children in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Outside the United States, soccer is really the one universal language,” said Operation Give’s Chief Paul Holton, who served as an interrogator in Iraq with the 141st Military Intelligence Battalion. Operation Give is a non-profit organization made up of volunteers in 6 states in the U.S. that work to collect donations. The donations go to our troops to deliver to needy children overseas. Operation Give is a Team Member of the Pentagon’s America Supports You Program. Operation Give has sent more than 65 Forty Foot Containers of Donations, such as Soccer equipment to the Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Operation Play Sports

Children in Iraq love soccer so much, they’ll play the game with any kind of ball they can get their hands on, including rocks.

Paul Holton and Operation Play Sports Paul Holton — known as “Chief Wiggles” to Iraqi children— said he hopes the Iraqi people will form a youth soccer league with the donation of cleats, soccer balls, T-shirts, water bottles and other items.

OPERATION SOCCER BALL

Operation Give Collects Soccer balls, clothes, and equipment. FREE shipping is provided by Operation Give to send these items to our Soldiers who can give these to the children in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have soccer clothes to start more than 40 teams of soccer in Iraq this spring. We are looking for soccer ball donations to complete the project.

Our soldiers can help teach the children, both girls and boys, how to play soccer.

We recently partnered with America Supports You and Philadelphia KIXX Indoor Soccer Team. More than 1,000 Soccer Balls were donated to Operation Soccer Ball for Operation Give to ship and distribute the balls to the soldiers and children in Iraq. We also received soccer balls and equipment from U.S. Soccer Foundation Passback Program. UYSA Invited State Cup Players to Make Dreams Come True at State Cup by donating gently used soccer gear to Operation Give to send to the children of Iraq. Chief Wiggles attended the event.