– The “Jr. NBA&AFD Basketball Expertise” Will Function Weekly Basketball and Life-Expertise Periods to Educate Senegalese Youth Concerning the Significance of Bodily and Psychological Wellness –
– AFD and NBA Africa Unveil Two Refurbished Basketball Courts in Guediawaye, Senegal –
– Former NBA Participant and 2015 FIBA AfroBasket Champion Olumide Oyedeji Attends Launch –
NBA Africa (www.Africa.NBA.com) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), France’s public improvement financial institution establishment dedicated to financing and technical help for tasks that enhance the lives of individuals in growing and rising economies, yesterday launched the “Jr. NBA&AFD Basketball Expertise” youth improvement program in Guediawaye, Senegal.
The Jr. NBA&AFD Basketball Expertise, launched in 2021 in Nigeria and subsequently additionally held in Kenya and Morocco, makes use of basketball as a platform to advertise social inclusion and youth empowerment amongst main and secondary faculty kids. In Senegal, this system will probably be operated by nongovernmental group (NGO) Sports activities for Schooling and Financial Growth (SEED) Mission and have weekly basketball and life-skills classes that can educate 1000’s of Senegalese girls and boys in regards to the significance of bodily and psychological well being, wellness and social cohesion.
As a part of this system’s launch in Senegal, NBA Africa and AFD unveiled two basketball courts at The Hamo 4.5.6. Courts in Guediawaye and held a clinic for 150 girls and boys ages 16 and underneath. The launch was attended by AFD Senegal Nation Director Mihoub Mezouaghi; Basketball Africa League (BAL) President Amadou Gallo Fall; NBA Africa Director of Basketball Operations Kita Matungulu; and former NBA participant and 2015 FIBA AfroBasket champion Olumide Oyedeji.
“Conscious of the potential of sport as a vector of social cohesion, AFD has made it a strategic axis of its motion to assist the achievement of the Sustainable Growth Targets,” stated Mezouaghi. “It’s on this dynamic that our collaboration with the NBA is a part of what goals to advertise the observe of sport in Africa by means of the supply of native infrastructure, the professionalization of sports activities educators and the group of sports activities classes, and training for younger individuals.”
“The collaboration between NBA Africa and AFD continues to develop as we prolong this initiative to succeed in extra younger individuals in new international locations on the continent,” stated Matungulu. “The Jr. NBA&AFD Basketball Expertise displays our dedication to investing within the subsequent era of African youth and our perception that basketball teaches life classes just like the significance of bodily and psychological wellness that assist kids succeed on the courtroom and in life.”
The refurbished courts, a part of NBA Africa’s dedication to construct 1,000 basketball courts in Africa over the following decade, are anticipated to learn 1000’s of girls and boys from the encompassing communities.
The Jr. NBA&AFD Basketball Expertise is a part of AFD and NBA Africa’s collaboration to assist basketball infrastructure and youth improvement throughout the continent and builds on this system’s earlier editions in Morocco and Nigeria, and its current launch in Kenya. Up to now, this system has reached practically 90,000 girls and boys ages 12-17 and 460 coaches and bodily training lecturers.
The Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA, the league’s world youth basketball participation program for girls and boys, teaches the elemental expertise in addition to the core values of the sport on the grassroots degree in an effort to assist develop and enhance the youth basketball expertise for gamers, coaches and oldsters. Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA programming has straight reached greater than 250,000 youth throughout Africa this 12 months.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA).
Contacts:
Chumani Bambani,
NBA Africa PR&Communications,
cbambani@nba.com,
+27 65 548 1031
Francine Pipien,
AFD Senegal,
pipienf.ext@afd.fr
About NBA Africa:
NBA Africa is an affiliate of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA), a world sports activities and media group with the mission to encourage and join individuals in all places by means of the ability of basketball. NBA Africa conducts the league’s enterprise in Africa, together with the Basketball Africa League (BAL), and has opened subsidiary places of work in Cairo, Egypt; Dakar, Senegal; Johannesburg, South Africa; Lagos, Nigeria; and Nairobi, Kenya. The league’s efforts on the continent have centered on rising entry to basketball and the NBA by means of youth and elite improvement, social accountability, media distribution, company partnerships, NBA Africa Video games, NBA Shops, the BAL, and extra.
NBA video games and programming can be found in all 54 African international locations, and the NBA has hosted three sold-out exhibition video games on the continent since 2015. The BAL, a partnership between the Worldwide Basketball Federation (FIBA) and NBA Africa, is knowledgeable league that includes 12 membership groups from throughout Africa that concluded its fourth season in June 2024. Followers can observe @ NBA_Africa and @ theBAL on Fb, Instagram, X and YouTube.
About AFD:
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group funds, helps and accelerates the transitions essential for a extra simply and resilient world. It thus contributes to implementing France’s coverage on sustainable improvement and worldwide solidarity. It’s with and for communities that we construct, with our companions, options in additional than 160 international locations, in addition to in 11 French abroad departments and territories.
Our goal: to reconcile financial improvement with the preservation of frequent items: the local weather, biodiversity, peace, gender equality, training and well being. Our groups are concerned in additional than 3,600 tasks within the area, that are a part of the dedication of France and the French individuals to fulfilling the Sustainable Growth Targets. For a world in frequent.
AFD strongly believes within the energy of sport as a lever to attain the sustainable improvement objectives. Because the launch of its sport for improvement technique in 2019, AFD has invested greater than €130 million in over 160 tasks that use sport as a device to advertise entry to training, gender equality, youth empowerment, well being and social cohesion. In Senegal, the AFD group places its complete vary of economic devices on the service of native financial and social improvement actors (state, public corporations, personal and monetary sector, NGOs, and so on.) to assist an inclusive improvement mannequin, creating jobs, promoter of sustainable infrastructure, and respectful of the setting. Since 2012, 115 tasks have been funded, representing a dedication of greater than 2.2 billion euros.