Big River First Nation has been expanding on its soccer program. For years we were bussing kids into Prince Albert to play youth soccer. This was a very expensive project. We decided to invest into our community and our soccer players; young & old. We purchased a full turf field which will be used for a variety of community events, and the introduction of new field sports. Since the installation date, have had a youth soccer tournament, and numerous friendly games with the Prince Albert Soccer Teams.
This turf supplied us with a facility to have our youth soccer teams stay home, and play soccer instead of attending Prince Albert youth soccer leagues. We have every age category play all summer and we still are running our soccer programs. The support that your organization supplied made huge impact with our youth in soccer, and as well in lacrosse. Team sports bring people together, but as you can see this project brings our community together.
Without NLCDC support a project like this would be out of reach for our community. We will keep on expanding on this investment moving forward. Thank you NLCDC for supporting community development in Big River First Nation.