Contact: Danielle Loustau-Williams FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Telephone: 1-347-414-4505
Email: fdlouwill@gmail.com
PITTSBURGH CUP, CHARITY SOCCER TOURNAMENT HOSTED BY SIGMA PHI EPSILON
Pittsburgh, PA – March 18, 2010 – On Saturday March 20 starting at 10:00 am, Sigma Phi Epsilon and non-profit, Anzar Exchange will be hosting an all day soccer tournament on the intramural fields outside the Cost Center. Twenty teams have signed up representing student groups of various sorts. The tournament will be 6 V 6 with a single elimination. The championship game will be played around 5:00. Winners will receive a basket of donated goods from local Oakland businesses including certificates from Dave & Andy’s Homemade Ice Cream, Joe Mama’s, Chipotle, Five Guys, K&T’s Fish and Chicken, Puccini Hair Salon, Supercuts and t-shirts from the Pitt Shop.
This is the second run for this Charity Soccer Tournament that is playing off of the upcoming World Cup by requiring each team to represent a country. The first tournament took place last fall. Organizers intend to do a tournament every semester, making it better and more successful every time.
The proceeds are going to support a local non-profit, Anzar Exchange that was started by Pitt graduate alumni. Currently, it is run by a mix of graduate students and undergraduate students. Their objectives are to promote cross-cultural understanding and sustainable development. Their current project is planting trees in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco where the desert and climate are taking a toll on the lifestyle rendering the land more and more uninhabitable. Since much of the world is affected by desertification including some of the poorest regions of Africa and the Middle East, Anzar Exchange seeks to come up with a model for addressing the issues that can be copied elsewhere. The particular funds developed from this event will go towards purchasing trees and educating villagers on the effects of environmental degradation.
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For more information about the event, contact zjh3@pitt.edu or acb39@pitt.edu. For information about the organization, please visit the website, www.anzarexchange.com, or contact fdlouwill@gmail.com
