A charity group in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung City has donated NT$1 million (US$31,511) to help fund an elementary school football team's trip to Hungary to compete in an international youth tournament, school officials said Monday. The spirits of Houjing Elementary School's football team were boosted at the prospect of traveling to the European country in late July to play in the Kun Cup, a trip made possible by the donation from the Chen Chung-ho Charity Foundation and presented to the school by Legislator Huang Chao-shun that day. 'We get to compete abroad! ' exulted the players. The children said they would train even harder and that they were confident of winning the tournament. Yang Kuang-ming, the school's principal, expressed appreciation for Huang's efforts to raise funds for the team, and said the school itself has raised around NT$300,000, including profits from selling cookies at a local night market that were baked by the students' mothers. Yang said the Kaohsiung city government and the Cabinet-level Sports Affairs Council have also donated some NT$1 million to subsidize the cost of the trip for the 32-member team, which won a national children's soccer championship in May, giving it the right to compete in the Kun Cup in the Hungarian city of Szolnok scheduled for August. 