The eighth annual Hope and Health will take place on August 19 at the Beban Park Grass Field Nanaimo.
Hope and Health board members and Whitecaps FC players Jake Nerwinski and Brett Levis will be in attendance along with their teammates Doneil Henry, Jon Erice, Ali Adnan, Theo Bair and David Norman.
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, Pacific FC 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).