Fundraiser helps Darfur refugees establish women’s soccer team
More than 100 people attended a fundraiser at the home of Manhattan Beach resident Marisuan Trout, raising $8,000 dollars to help refugee women in Sudan establish a soccer team. Photo by Andrez Stauring It’s a long way – geographically, demographically and spiritually — from the mega-mansions, upscale restaurants and seaside luxury of Manhattan Beach to the makeshift huts, long food lines and tattered tents of Darfur, a dusty, wind-blown war-torn region of Sudan. But in just three hours Saturday night, a bridge built upon the twin towers of athletic opportunity and female empowerment was built from scratch. And it only cost $8,000. That’s how much money was raised at the Ruhland Avenue home of Marisusan Trout to start a Darfur United women’s soccer team to match the Darfur United Men’s soccer team already in existence. More than 100 of Trout’s friends, family and business colleagues showed up to donate money and bid on auction items donated by local businesses. The wine donated by Barsha flowed freely, the potato latkes with salmon donated by Gelson’s were gobbled up, and a good time was had by all those who walked away feeling good about what they had done. “All these people left…
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