International Basketball Foundation

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We use the power of Basketball to initiate positive change #BasketballForGood

Geschichte

The International Basketball Foundation (IBF) was founded in 2008 by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). IBF’s mission is to address the role of sports, in particular Basketball, in the fields of community building, education, health and well-being, as well as conflict resolution. IBF promotes the values and cultural heritage of Basketball as a vector for change and develops inclusive programmes to tackle pressing issues that affect children and youth in the concerned communities. The programmes are initiated by IBF and implemented in partnership with FIBA’s member federations, local NGOs and partners with the aim of supporting collaboration between local actors and to drive economic growth in the relevant region. The Foundation is currently active in Aruba, Saint Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Guyana, French Guiana, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Malawi, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Djibouti, Comoros, Madagascar and Seychelles.

"The FIBA Foundation was founded in 2008 and its mission is to use the power of basketball to initiate positive change, with the aim of strengthening FIBA's integration into initiatives undertaken to promote peace, social cohesion, inclusion, gender equality as well as facilitating dialogue and communication between communities. The Foundation promotes the education, well-being, training and responsibility of vulnerable youth through the practice of basketball and using its values as a vehicle."