The monks' schedule doesn't offer them much free time. When they do have the opportunity, they love to play soccer.

Really, really love it.

I saw that many of them share shoes (wrong size or very old).

FC Boulder, a US soccer club, stepped up to the plate. The group set out donation boxes at game sites around Boulder, Colorado, and players and parents chipped in---

Soccer kleets and shin guards, warmups and t-shirts, uniforms and goalie gloves...

More friends stepped in to help cover the cost of shipping, and the donated goodies are en route to Nepal.

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