* 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 [...]
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 [...]
* 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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
The past two summers, Jafar Musa, 17, attended the A2S basketball camp, and both times he was selected Most Valuable Player. This fall, he left his home in Benin City, to study on scholarship in Bedford, Virginia, where he lives [...]
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