Football match with MINUSTAH (MIssion des Nations Unis pour la STAbilisation d'Haiti) and AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team)SSAC team in Anse Rouge inspired UN technical assistance for salt project. Meeting of MINUSTAH representatives from Gonaives to negotiate partnership with SSAC and AMURT. A typical example of how sports can bring hands and minds together has become evident in this event. UN soldiers in Haiti usually bored and without much tasks except providing a visual presence of safety in the country are eager for recreation. Some of the visits of AMURT and SSAC looking for a partnership in the development work brought up the idea of doing some recreational events as a way of interacting with the local people, getting support and sympathy for UN presence in Haiti, a sympathy that is on the verge of waining as kidnappings and armed groups are under control, Haitians questioning UN presence in Haiti. How about a football match ? "Yes, for sure" said SSAC sports Director Markus Rosbach, SSAC in Haiti being called CASS (Club des Aventuriers Spirituels Sportifs). The MINUSTAH sports team included players from Argentina, Ecuador and Chile. UN camped out in Magazin / Anse Rouge to help the salt project and play fierce fotball... An AMURT volunteer... from Brazil...Turned the tides ... The AMURT/SSAC team of Sources Chaudes posing before the game... On the 11th of May 2008 at 5 P.M., the long awaited moment had come. Two teams determined to win stood against each other. The SSAC selection of AMURT took the best local players of Sources Chaudes including AMURT employees and 11 players of the 27 MINUSTAH army soldiers who had come to help remove some of the earth of the AMURT salt project. The first game was won by SSAC/AMURT 4:3 goals. Their commander could not believe it, he said "we should have won". They prepared and trained for the revanche next week which yielded a 1:1 win/win final match which reflected the partnership between the two organisations. Yes, it was a win/win result, since the MINUSTAH got sympathy from the local people and AMURT got the needed help to finalize the new salt extraction project which will give a 5 times higher yield compared to the traditional method. On top of that the salt will be iodized and contribute to preventing thousands of people getting sick from a variety of diseases linked to iodine deficiency.