Donating Soccer Balls of Hope

The South Korean Zaitoon unit delivered a hundred “soccer balls of hope” to a rural village named Bahirka, north of Arbil, Iraq where they are stationed. The force plans to give 50,000 soccer balls, donated last March by Dong-A Ilbo newspaper, to Iraqi children. Soldiers are unloading soccer balls from a truck (left). A happy Iraqi child is shown after receiving a soccer ball with a Taeguk mark and “Korea-Iraq” in English, which symbolizes friendship between the two countries.