The seventh annual Hope and Health will take place on August 20 at Merle Logan Turf Field in Nanaimo. Hope and Health board members and Whitecaps FC players Russell Teibert, Kendall Waston, Erik Hurtado and Marcel de Jong will be in attendance along with their teammates Kei Kamara, Brek Shea, Efrain Juarez and Felipe Martins. They’ll also be joined by Hope and Health board member and former ‘Caps U-15 head coach James Merriman, local Vancouver Island University Mariners soccer players, Whitecaps FC club ambassador Carl Valentine and Spike!
This impressive lineup will run Vancouver Island-based Indigenous children and youth through a day of soccer skills, drills and games, after being kitted up with an authentic Hope and Health jersey, game-sized personal soccer ball, socks and cleats (first come, first serve basis for the cleats which are possible due to generous donations through the recent “Boot It Forward” Boot Drive).