FIBA Foundation and partner Tambai Zimbabwe don enter Sport for Refugees Coalition Collaborative Action Grant Initiative, as dem secure fund from Olympic Refuge Foundation for new project for Tongogara Refugee Settlement. The programme, wey dem call am Green Hoops: Refugee-Led Climate Action through Basketball, go run Basketball For Good sessions every week wey go combine the sport with climate education and community action.
Green Hoops go directly engage 472 learners, youth leaders, teachers and facilitators for 14 schools and Tongogara Basketball Club, and outreach events dey expected to reach around 2,000 community members. Drawing from the climate action chapter of FIBA Foundation Basketball For Good Playbook, participants go identify local environmental challenges and design their own responses, including tree planting, clean-up campaigns and waste management.
The main thing for this project na the principle of "Nothing About Refugees Without Refugees," wia refugees dey help set priorities and lead the initiative as facilitators, mentors and decision-makers.
"We dey grateful to Olympic Refuge Foundation for supporting this initiative and we dey excited to build on top our long-standing partnership with Tambai Zimbabwe," Theren Bullock Jr., head of FIBA Foundation tok. "Through Green Hoops, young people from refugee and host communities go use basketball as platform to lead positive change and address environmental challenges for their communities."
