2026 Project
This summer, Play It Forward is partnering with Ndaw Académie, a Senegalese charitable academy, to build and rehabilitate three basketball courts in Senegal. The first court will be built from the ground up in a school in Fatick, where children currently have no access to sporting facilities. Then we will completely restructure two existing basketball league courts, currently in bad condition, in order to give them new life.
Building a community and changing lives
We are going to:
- Build a 390 m² multi-use school-based court in Fatick, Senegal
- Rehabilitate a 1216 m² double league court in Fatick, Senegal, with a full surface reconstruction and new hoops
Our aim:
- 1,000+ youth impacted annually through sports
- To make basketball part of daily life in Fatick, with children at the centre of it all on our courts
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All together, this project goes beyond simply building courts. We aim to create a community for the kids to lean on.
Coaches and clubs will keep organising training sessions and activities to keep the kids involved and to create an ecosystem around sport, education, and leadership.
These courts will therefore continue to impact the community for years to come
CAMPS
Together with Ndaw Académie, we will inaugurate the new courts in August of 2026, with 3 full days of basketball camps for the children.
On the first day, we will host a girls-only basketball camp to bring young girls closer to the sport. Then we will host 2 other co-ed basketball camps. Teaching structured basketball coaching, skills development, and youth empowerment sessions. This will create spaces for kids to grow through sport.
These days of inauguration will be an opportunity for us to bring together hundreds of people, and donate over 200 pairs of shoes, a t-shirt to every participant, and much more!