When our crews are out attending to day-to-day lake management and stormwater services, they expect to take care of issues that are biological in nature, such as weed and algae control, pest control and debris removal from leaves and branches. However, we do come across a fair number of usable sports related balls, such as footballs and soccer balls that warrant another opportunity to be “recycled” but also kept from taking up space in the landfill. Our Environmental Specialist, Matt Troxler, gave us a great suggestion for the many usable balls that we come across.
Matt told us about a mission project that his church, Burnt Hickory Church of Christ, is involved with a mission outreach program in Honduras called Mission UpReach. DESEO is a youth outreach program in Honduras that instructs values, morals, and personal health and hygiene in nine public schools using a bible-based curriculum. After hearing about this program, our team collected all the good, usable balls we found over the course of a year and sent them down with the missionaries who traveled to Honduras this summer from Burnt Hickory Church of Christ. We were glad to be able to enrich both our local environment as well as to extend the reach of Aquascape Environmental to the kids in Central America. This is the third year Aquascape has participated in this wonderful service project.
