This photo was taken in 1993 and shows the Navrongo Seconday School boys basketball team and their Peace Corps Volunteer coach. This Team won the Upper East Regional championship in 1993.
This is a picture of the Volunteer playing basketball with local youth behind the youth center. The hoops were renovated with funding from a Peace Corps/USAID SPA grant.
Sports; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken in April 2011 in Guatemala. As an outlet and self-esteem builder, I started a basketball league for teenage girls from surrounding areas. This picture shows some of the girls wearing their newly donated jerseys from a family...
Susy-s Sports Club constructing basketball court in the plaza of Quesada.The girls played weekly in town and sometimes visited other towns that had Peace Corps Volunteer initiated sports clubs during 1963-1965.
The basketball court was a central feature of Neijiang Teachers' College in 1998. Basketball was almost as popular as ping-pong. Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
After soccer ("football"), school children loved playing basketball. During my second year as a high school English teacher In Kangavar, Iran, I organized the school's first basketball team. Pictured here are the team members and three fellow...