Haitian Amputee to offer Soccer demonstration at K of C soccer field in Vatican, Rome

Mackenson Pierre, Wilfrid Macena and Sandy J.L. Louiseme took their story of hope to a conference held at the Vatican on January 10, to mark the event exactly five years after it took place half a world away. Following that appearance, the young men took part in an amputee soccer demonstration in Rome's K of C soccer field. These men, as well as many of the other amputees who received limbs from the program, have gone on to form a new soccer team for athletes who are amputees.

The Rome affair was put on to bring the focus back to the calamitous event and what the repercussions in the lives of the affected men, women and children are. Pope Francis hoped it would show the solidarity between the Haitian people and the Church, and the young men who participated were integral in showing that the country has been able to heal and hope again after the massive earthquake.

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