Clintons and Haiti step in to help Trinidad and Tobago womens team
An appeal for funds from Trinidad and Tobago women’s coach Randy Waldrum has seen donations flooding in. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP
After hearing that the Trinidad and Tobago women's football team might not even have enough money for lunch, Haiti's side took a look at their fundraising for World Cup qualifying – an account totalling a little over $1,300 (£800) – and decided to turn it over to the competition.
That left Haiti with an uncertain future of their own. Until the Clintons got involved.
Both squads are training for next week's Concacaf Championship, which serves as qualifying for the Women's World Cup next year in Canada. Haiti open the eight-team tournament on Wednesday against Guatemala in Kansas, while Trinidad and Tobago face the top-ranked USA team.
On Wednesday, Trinidad and Tobago's coach, Randy Waldrum, issued an urgent plea on Twitter.
"I need HELP! T&T sent a team here last night with $500 total. No equipment such as balls, no transportation from airport to hotel, nothing," the post read.
Waldrum said on Thursday that his players had breakfast at their hotel in Dallas, where they are training, but he did not know where lunch was going to come from. So he got dramatic. "I thought: 'I've got an hour to find meals, to get us through the day, let alone the next five or six days,'" he said.
"The only way I knew to do it was to send the tweet out, and I knew I couldn't say: 'Hey, T&T is in need of money, will you help donate?'"
His posts went viral quickly. The website keepernotes reached out to Waldrum and had soon collected just over $9,300 (£5,800) for the team via a PayPal account. Jen Cooper, who runs KeeperNotes, said because of the
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