Alberth Elis came from a modest part of Honduras to become an international soccer player, and one of the stars of the Houston Dynamo. Now, he's giving back to his hometown.
A feature in Diez this week reported that the 21-year-old Elis, acquired on a full transfer by the Dynamo in December, recently funded a computer lab for his hometown of San Juan de Tela, along the northern coast of Honduras.
“For a long time, I’ve been wanting to give back to my community,” Elis told HoustonDynamo.com. “I am part of Fundación OCAD, through which we were able to donate this computer lab as well as deliver food, donate soccer uniforms and visit hospitals to give out toys.”
The lab is intended to benefit local children of the community in particular, most of whom belong to the same Garifuna ethnic group that Elis is a part of. The Garifuna are descendants of African and indigeneous Caribbean islanders, who now live around the Caribbean and coastal Central America.
