Real Madrid to help rebuild school destroyed in Haiti earthquake

Real Madrid to help rebuild school in Haiti

MADRID — Real Madrid plans to provide funds to rebuild a school that was destroyed in the earthquake in Haiti.

Team president Florentino Perez said the Real Madrid Foundation will donate money to resurrect the Ecole Saint Gerard in Port-au-Prince.

Real Madrid will work with a Spanish NGO that founded the school. It had 1,200 students but was flattened in the quake, with some 300 children killed, Perez said at a ceremony at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Perez said “Haiti has suffered an absolute disaster and we face a great challenge, but we must not think it is impossible to achieve.”

The team also plans to create a soccer school and social club that will provide Haitian children with medical care and food.