Haiti's Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion (HFF) of­fice is back up and run­ning fol­low­ing a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar in­vest­ment, span­ning the next four years, by Dig­i­cel, made yes­ter­day. Haiti's Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion of­fice was de­stroyed dur­ing the Jan­u­ary 12, 8.0 earth­quake which saw over 250,000 deaths and left bil­lions of dol­lars in struc­tur­al dam­age in Port-au-Prince. Dig­i­cel do­nat­ed vi­tal of­fice sup­plies and equip­ment in­clud­ing com­put­ers, con­fer­ence ta­bles, chairs, scan­ners, print­ers, pho­to­copiers, gen­er­a­tors and a wa­ter pump to help get the Fed­er­a­tion back on track.

In ad­di­tion, near­ly 1,000 hand­sets were dis­trib­uted to the Fed­er­a­tion and to its first and sec­ond di­vi­sion teams. Hav­ing spon­sored the men's na­tion­al team and the first di­vi­sion league since 2006, Dig­i­cel has worked close­ly with the HFF over the last four years to de­vel­op ad­di­tion­al pro­grammes to sup­port the de­vel­op­ment of the sport such as the Dig­i­cel Kick Start Clin­ics. The new deal al­so sup­ports the women's na­tion­al league, mak­ing this the first time the women's league has ever re­ceived sup­port from cor­po­rate Haiti. "Sup­port­ing the de­vel­op­ment of foot­ball is very im­por­tant to Dig­i­cel, not on­ly in Haiti but across the Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca," said Dig­i­cel Haiti CEO, Maarten Boute, "Like so many in Haiti, the Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion suf­fered great loss­es as a re­sult of the Jan­u­ary 12 earth­quake.

As proud spon­sors of Hait­ian foot­ball and foot­ball lovers, we're de­ter­mined to do all that we can to help it to re­build and once again see the play­ers per­form­ing to their full po­ten­tial." Dig­i­cel has been in­volved in a wide range of foot­ball ini­tia­tives de­signed to sup­port the de­vel­op­ment of foot­ball in the Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca. The telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny al­so spear­heads the Dig­i­cel Kick Start Clin­ics in the Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, which of­fer young foot­ballers the op­por­tu­ni­ty to train with renowned foot­ballers such as Liv­er­pool leg­ends, John Barnes and Ian Rush, as well as spend one week with UK Pre­mier League Clubs, Sun­der­land AFC and Man­ches­ter City.