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- NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
- NEWS_POSTED_ON: Dec 24, 2014
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- Category : Diaspora News
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Description :
Project Phoenix, a NY-based non-profit organization founded to build innovative sport stadiums in the most impoverished places, is pleased to announce the formation of its Advisory Board. Lending their vision, expertise and energies to this pioneering project are NBC Sports’ Bob Costas; former United States House of Representatives Majority Leader, the Honorable **** Gephardt; and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Honorable Dennis Hastert.
- Location : New York, NY, United States
- Phone : info@project-phoenix.org
- Email : info@project-phoenix.org
- Website : http://project-phoenix.org
Overview
Project Phoenix was launched at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative with a commitment made by Morad Fareed, an entrepreneur and former athlete, and Robert “Boby” Duval, a Haitian sports icon and humanitarian. Project Phoenix’s mission is to support local partners and youth programs by developing stadiums and self-sustaining environments which will house educational programs, sports training and dormitories for local children.
The inaugural project, Phoenix Stadium, will be a 12,000 seat world-class athletic facility and community center in Haiti’s Cite de Soleil, an area designated as a United Nations Red Zone and among the island nation’s most impoverished towns desperately in need of economic growth. The complex will serve as an athletic, communal and economic vehicle of transformation, a vision that was developed through Mr. Duval’s decades of progressive work in Cite de Soleil through his Fondation L’Athletique D’Haiti (FLADH).
“Project Phoenix is honored have partnered with such a world-class Advisory Board,” says Morad Fareed, president of Project Phoenix. “As distinguished leaders in public and sporting life, their collective experiences will be vital to the transformation we are committed to making through building sport infrastructure.”