Toe to Head
* Support A2S by using the code "A2S" to purchase a ticket to the 7th Annual A2S Game at Davidson College on February 21 against Fordham at 7 p.m. Email gwen@a2sfoundation.org for information on our group package, which includes a [...]
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The Ever-Present Reality of Hunger
* Click here to donate to the Meal-a-Thon Clint Smith is a graduate of Davidson College where he received his B.A. in English. He is a teacher, poet and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University. In 2013, the Maryland [...]
Wars in Our Stomachs
Click Here to DONATE TO THE A2S MEAL-A-THON Aisosa Ogboghodo is a 22-year-old A2S scholarship recipient who currently studies International Studies and Diplomacy at the Ambrose Ali University in Ekpoma, Edo State. Aisosa wrote this poem to draw attention to [...]
Palm-Kernel Delight
* Click Here to DONATE TO THE A2S MEAL-A-THON* Jennifer Nkem Eneanya is a friend of A2S and the editor of Konnect Africa, an online magazine focused on Africa and the great achievements of Africans in this era. She writes [...]
Uche Ufochukwu: Strength in Character
Uche Ufochukwu is a 16-year-old girl from Benin City, Nigeria, who had never played basketball until April of 2013, when her life intertwined with A2S. This year, Uche will travel to the U.S. to study and play basketball through a [...]
A2S Hosts Three-Day Health Clinic on Ebola and Other Strange Diseases
A2S recently hosted a three-day health clinic to educate our youth and their communities about now-contained Ebola outbreak. Serving nearly 1,700 members of the A2S community in Benin City, the clinic featured education about strange diseases, outreach into the community [...]
A Mentorship Started on a Basketball Court
Every evening after school, Uche and his friends would go to the basketball court in one of the poorest areas of Lagos, known as Kiri Kiri town. There was a half court in terrible condition that the youth in his [...]
Live from the New A2S Computer Center!
Mid-way through the A2S trip is usually when everything overlaps, and today was no different than previous years. Except that today connected in a new and special way. In our devotion this morning we shared about the costs of doing [...]
A Nigerian Woman
Though the world now stands together to #bringbackourgirls, in the past Nigeria has not been a main focus of international media with regards to poverty, especially as it is influenced by role of women. This is despite the size of [...]
Upe: An All-Star On and Off the Court
Upe Atosu Esther has an astounding level of self-assuredness and confidence for someone just 20 years old. A member of the Nigerian women’s national basketball team, she works to advance the position of women in her country rather than simply [...]
