Former soccer star LeBlanc credits UNICEF for helping her understand her purpose
Karina LeBlanc’s life changed in 2013 during a trip to Honduras, her first as an UNICEF ambassador.
LeBlanc, then still playing goal for the Canadian women’s soccer team, was running a camp for 200 girls on a dirt-gravel field. Gunshots could be heard at times in the background in a country where guns and crime are commonplace, life is cheap and hope can be of short supply.
Then she noticed the jerseys some of the girls were wearing.
“These jerseys came from a Canadian years ago,” LeBlanc was told.