Children in Venezuela are in dire need. With food shortages, the lack of available healthcare, affordable medicine and other necessities caused by an unprecedented economic and political crisis, every day becomes a struggle for the youth in what once was a thriving oil-rich South American country.
So what kind of difference can a new baseball glove make to a poor young Venezuelan boy or girl?
“You know what, it can mean everything,” Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve said before Friday night’s opener of a three-game series against the Diamondbacks at Chase Field. “Trust me, that’s something that’s so special.