Shooting Touch Sabbatical
2010-2011 Sabbatical Grantee Tome Barros
From July,2010- April 2011, Tome was in Senegal, Brazil andCape Verde...leaving his footprints of change along the way. Feature on Cape Verdean TV can be seen HERE !
Please see the AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHS below he is taking and read about the positive impact he left behind.
Shooting Touch Sabbatical
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"Shooting Touch’s
Sabbatical Program
is an outstanding
way for students to
use their passion for
basketball and
channel it into a ten
month mission of
changing and
impacting lives.
It's the opportunity
of a lifetime for
these folks and an
incredible program.
All students who are
fortunate enough to
win the grant,will
undoubtedly return
home a more
mature, enriched
and passionate
person."
Coach Bob Hurley,
St. Anthony's
High School, NJ
"Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"Be The Change You
Wish To See
In The World".
Mahatma Gandhi
The journey began 6/13/11. First stop...Cape Town, South Africa.
Next stop, 9/1/2011, Johanesborug, South Africa
"To say today was quite educational would be an understatement, but that is what I am LOVING about my adventure so far… I have met so many people from all over who have gone through so many different experiences and they are teaching and showing me so much…WHAT A BLESSING!"
"For the next three weeks, all children here in South Africa are on their winter holidays, which means one thing for all of us here at H4H… Holiday Camp Precious! ! Every day we will be running a basketball camp in Crossroads and Philippi, two local townships here in Cape Town. It is free for the kids, and nobody will be turned away from us, which means absolute manic most of the time!!
"One of the things I am loving so far (apart from the kids!), are all the people I am meeting… Cape Town seems to be the melting pot of Africa… I have made friends with people from all over the continent as well as the rest of the world! The other night we went over to a friends for dinner and I ended up hanging out with people from Kenya, Ireland, England, Texas, Philadelphia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Australia and who knows where else Ahh bless! ! It's such a blessing though, I feel like I am growing and learning so much!
Soundbites from Leah in South Africa....
"Pinching myself has become a regular practice for me, solely because I find myself questioning whether my everyday life is real or not! If some one were to ask me last year where I thought I would be at this particular time, I probably would have said home in Ireland. Volunteering and living in Africa was always a dream of mine, something close to my heart but in reality, it was a distant dream, something I thought couldn't be accomplished for sometime until I worked and could support such an adventure… Well, as cliché as it sounds, I am LTD… LIVING THE DREAM, and to that I say, "spanks a mil Shooting Touch!"
"One of the main reasons I am on this 10 month sabbatical is to create some extra hope and joy in people’s lives through the sport of basketball… My favorite thing about being part of the Shooting Touch family is sharing in a similar idea, the idea that basketball can be used as a tool to not only bring together people from many different backgrounds but educate and mentor them, help them grow as well as see and believe that there are so many opportunities out there in this crazy but beautiful world we live in! This week I saw these ideas and vision come into fruition.
This week we had the 2nd Annual Shooting Touch Basketball Camp.
This week was AWESOME!!!! "
STAY TUNED!
