Hoops 4 Hope
Hoops 4 Hope is a not-for-profit organization that supports youth development in Zimbabwe and South Africa by working with schools, shelters, and community organizations. Hoops 4 Hope provides the most basic tools that young people need to play team sports and face the many challenges of growing up in communities plagued with poverty, crime, and HIV/AIDS. We build basketball courts, organize leagues, distribute athletic equipment collected from around Canada and the United States, run coaching clinics, organize tournaments, supply financial assistance for team travel, host international basketball coaches and players, and provide children with a safe, nurturing environment in which they develop more than just skills for the court, they develop SKILLS 4 LIFE!
Since 1995, HOOPS 4 HOPE (H4H), a global not-for-profit organization, has supported youth development throughout southern Africa by providing more than 10,000 school-age children with our Basketball/Life Skills program. Using sport as a vehicle for social and personal change, H4H empowers children to become productive adults, engage in healthy lifestyles, and become leaders within their communities and the world. Our extensive network of partnering schools, children’s shelters, and community groups helps get kids off the street.
Hoops4Hope has the priviledge of being at the Dolphin Park Classic Basketball Tournament again this year! This year we will be looking for donations of any well kept used basketball shoes, basketballs, soccer balls, soccer cleats as well as cross trainers. We will also have a booth set up where we will be selling t-shirts as well as other African items. ALL PROCEEDS will go directly to Hoops4Hope. Finally we will be having a 50/50 draw as well where proceed will go to Hoops4Hope and a Dolphin Park Charity.
For more information please visit www.hoopsafrica.org.
