Featured Project: A Basketball Court at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp
Alpha Ba is a CorpsAfrica Exchange Volunteer from Senegal. He has been serving at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi since 2017. In collaboration with Jesuit Refugee Services and a group of young basketball players from the camp (the "Dream Team"), Alpha secured support from the NBA to build a new basketball court for youth at the camp. The court now serves as a space for ongoing sports programs promoting dignity, social inclusion, and overall well-being for youth in this protracted refugee situation. See video at right to hear directly from the incredible people involved in this exciting project.
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Full version of project overview
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Additional Videos
Abridged version of project overview
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Coverage of project on Zodiak TV in Malawi
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Interviews with the Dream Team, pre-construction
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Liz Fanning discusses the basketball project on live tv
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The Project: Key Points
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A special thanks to the project's partners and supporters:
About the CorpsAfrica Volunteer
Amadou Alpha Ba is from Dakar. He has a degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English and German) from the University of Saint Louis. Very active as a student, he was President of the Google Student Ambassador Committee. As a member since 2013 of UGB Verte, a structure that advocates for the environment, he participated as a volunteer for Citizen Camp in the Carabane and Souloum Islands. He also attended sessions on leadership training through AIESEC. Alpha has participated in activities with Afrobarometer; he visited more than 50 villages in Senegal, which sparked his interest in helping people in remote areas. After finishing his Masters in Tourism and Hotel Management, Alpha served as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer in Senegal and then in Malawi at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp.
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