Oct 01 20122

We are glad to announce a new partnership with African Soul Train, created by musical director Steven Sacky and artistic director Jeffrey Wood (Mr. Fantastik).  African Soul Train is an internationally recognized African drum and dance company that has worked with professionals, students and travelers from around the world. The partnership evolves around helping the youth [...] Read more

Tags: African Soul Train, Canada, Mr. Fantastik, music, partnership, volunteer

Sep 28 20123

[caption id="attachment_501" align="alignleft" width="300"] Wesley Girls Basic School, winners of beach volleyball event[/caption] Alexandra, an American volunteer with Hoops Care has been for the past four weeks interacting and training girls of selected HCI partnered school in volleyball. They practiced on the beach which is a close proximity to the basketball [...] Read more

Tags: beach volleyball, george ekem ferguson, girls, morning star, volleyball, wesley girls

Sep 18 20124

[caption id="attachment_479" align="alignleft" width="300"] With girls from Morning Star Academy[/caption] Alexandra, Hoops Care new volunteer is very passionate about volleyball. On her first day she made it known that she will love to work with girls in teaching them the sport. Being an excellent idea as it falls within the scope [...] Read more

Tags: beach volleyball, girls, volleyball

Sep 13 20125

[caption id="attachment_372" align="alignleft" width="300"] Kawanopado, 2012 inomie community basketball champions[/caption] "You reap what you sow; He who wash his hands eat with kings;" these are some of the wise sayings the boys got when they enter the various markets with their trophy. This is something unheard of in Cape Coast for [...] Read more

Tags: Accra, Cape Coast, Champions, Indomie Community Dunks, Kawanopado

Sep 01 20126

[caption id="attachment_347" align="alignleft" width="300"] group photo of some of the players[/caption] Hoops Care was once again able to bring together youth from various parts of Cape Coast to compete in a fair and discipline environment. The tournament also brought out the wheelchair basketball team of Cape Coast to exhibit their talent as [...] Read more

Tags: Afahye, Afahye Games, Cape Coast

Aug 27 20127

[caption id="attachment_94" align="alignleft" width="300"] HCI boys as they drop down in Kanashe, Accra.[/caption] Thirteen young boys 15U participated in the first ever basketball tour in HCI existence. The tour took them through various training facilities in the Greater Accra Region wherein they also played friendly against different teams. The boys won [...] Read more

Tags: Accra, HCI Tour

Aug 25 20128

Hoops Care International in collaboration with City of Refuge, a grass root organization working to liberate children from the fishing industry in Ghana, Educate individuals, groups and villages about the affects of slavery and motivate others to get involved in ending human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world. [...] Read more

Tags: City of Refuge, Doryumu, Volta Region

Aug 14 20129

Adam McKay (Twitter: @AdamGMcKay), founder of Helping Hoops announced on their website on  August 14th, "We have some big news. We are excited to announce that Ghana-based charity, Hoops Care International, is now the official Sister Charity of Helping Hoops!....Helping Hoops will be providing weekly coaching development sessions over Skype to help [...] Read more

Tags: sister charity

Jun 10 201210

[caption id="attachment_225" align="alignleft" width="300"] Brennan speaking to the students midway through the camp on the importance of staying healthy.[/caption] Brennan Hyler, a soccer player for the University of Florida, volunteer with Hoops Care International for three weeks. His time was spent not only running educational mentoring for students of our partner [...] Read more

Tags: Brennan Hyler, football, Soccer Camp, youth sport