Shooting Touch has responded to a call from the City of Boston to get urban female youth more actively engaged in and have equal access to sport programming. This curriculum marries the values and skills learned on the court with lessons and experiences that target improved health, citizenry, and employability. Grantees educate youths in their respective communities on implementing Shooting Touch's Turikumwe curriculum, meaning “we are together” in Kinyarwanda. In these communities Shooting Touch has constructed 8 full courts, rebuilt 10 half courts, and served several hundred youth. In order to ensure program sustainability, Shooting Touch has focused the program in eight different communities of the Easter Province of Rwanda. In its fifth year, program grantees have work in Brazil, Cape Verde, Senegal, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Shooting Touch Basketball Health Corps grants graduating college-athlete seniors the opportunity to travel to Rwanda and partake in a year-long international work program using the platform of basketball to help foster education and influence positive social change in the third world communities of Rwanda. In order to reverse the cycles of poverty, disease and violence, the Basketball Health Corps is transforming courts into classrooms where youth and their communities can learn, develop, and play together. This population represents a youth bulge that is hungry for knowledge and success but is being starved of the access and opportunities integral to their personal and professional development. In 2012, Shooting Touch put down program roots in Rwanda and is now serving over 800 youth in eight rural communities struggling to rebuild after the 1994 genocide. In addition to these two branches of Shooting Touch there are several events, such as camps, clinics, and fundraising events that allow for the programs to be functional long-term There, our in country director, fellows and trained coaches host programming for the young men and women of the 8 different communities and, not only teach them the sport, but emphasize the importance of the health curriculum they are teaching. The Basketball Health Corps is the Shooting Touch program based in Rwanda. Shooting Touch offers this free, safe, sport-based educational experience to these young girls. G3: Getting Girls in the Game is the Boston-based program offered to girls in the community where they are able to participate in a sport that, in past, has not been offered in the form of a free, coach-mentor program. This is done in both locally, in Boston, and abroad in Rwanda by teaching the fundamentals of basketball and in the process providing these youth with vital health information. Shooting Touch is an international sport-for-development non-profit that uses the power of basketball to educate and empower at-risk youth and the communities in which they reside.
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