Rise Through Hoops • IB Sports Foundation
Equity • Access • Opportunity
Every Child Can Rise Through Hoops
At IB Sports Foundation, sport is more than a game, it is a powerful tool for confidence, belonging, and life opportunity. Founded in 2022, our work is rooted in a simple truth: talent exists everywhere, but access does not.
Talent is Universal. Opportunity is Not. Through the Rise Through Hoops initiative, we provide essential equipment, structured coaching, and global mentorship to ensure a child’s starting point never defines their finish line. Delivered through structured coaching systems, safeguarding protocols, and long-term institutional partnerships.
Coaching • Access • Mentorship • Inclusion
🧡 How We Create Impact Through Sport
Working with underprivileged communities, orphanages, and children with special needs, we bridge the gap between potential and opportunity. Through structured sports programs, we don’t just build athletes — we build confidence, discipline, teamwork, leadership, and a sense of belonging that strengthens children in school, in life, and in their communities.
Our model combines consistent coaching, mentorship, access support, and inclusive programming to create sustained developmental and social impact.
At its heart, IB Sports Foundation exists to use sport as a pathway to education engagement, life skills, inclusion, and long-term opportunity for children who would otherwise lack access.
We believe every child, regardless of background or ability, deserves the chance to grow, belong, and thrive through play.
Built for Scale • Integrity • Long-Term Impact
IB Impact Engine • Hub & Spoke Model
IB Sports Foundation operates a structured Hub-and-Spoke Impact Engine designed to scale youth sports access through centralized governance, safeguarding, and technical standards.
This model ensures every program delivers consistent quality, ethical oversight, and measurable impact, while coaching systems and strategic partners enable sustainable expansion across communities.
Every component operates under a Zero-Tolerance Safeguarding Policy, ensuring sport remains a safe, trusted, and accountable space for every child.
The Hub — IB Sports Foundation
Strategy • Governance • Impact
The Hub ensures every spoke operates within a trusted, accountable, and ethically governed framework, enabling responsible and sustainable growth.
The Backbone — IB Sports Academy
Coaching • Curriculum • Systems
This backbone ensures all programs maintain professional consistency, technical integrity, and globally aligned training standards across communities.
The Accelerators — Strategic Partners
Impact Capital • Scale
Their support strengthens infrastructure and program continuity, while the Foundation retains full governance, safeguarding, and accountability, ensuring measurable and scalable impact.
The Spokes — Communities & Children
Access • Development • Opportunity
Guided by the Foundation’s governance and the Academy’s systems, children receive safe access to sport, mentorship, and long-term development pathways that create lasting opportunity on the ground.
Long-Term Engagement & Structured Development
🏀 Coaching & Institutional Partnership Programs
We partner with and support children from orphanages such as Don Bosco Ashalayam , providing consistent, professional coaching and opportunities to participate in competitions. Our programs follow a long-term engagement model, ensuring continuity, mentorship, and measurable growth.
How This Creates Impact:
- Regular Training Cycles — structured weekly coaching, not one-off event
- Competitive Exposure — tournaments that build confidence & resilience
- Mentorship Pathways — coaches serve as role models beyond the sport
Access, Dignity & Equal Opportunity
👟 Removing Barriers to Participation
Financial limitations should never stop a child from playing. We ensure every participant steps onto the court with dignity, safety, and proper support. What We Provide:
- Professional Sports Gear — full basketball kits and high-quality shoes
- Nutrition Support — healthy meals and snacks during training
- Community Support Drives — essential resources for families in need
Sports as a Life Skills Classroom
🎒 Life Skills & Education Engagement
Every session intentionally builds communication, resilience, teamwork, discipline, and goal-setting — skills that translate directly into improved school engagement and positive social behavior. All programs are delivered in safe, supervised environments focused on child well-being, dignity, and inclusion.
Expanded Exposure Includes:
- Aerobics & Gymnastics — broadening physical literacy
- Multi-Sport Training — encouraging diverse movement development
- Positive Routine Building — structured after-school engagement
Ability Beyond Disability
⛹️ Inclusive Sports – The Sunday Center
Our Sunday Center for Special Children creates a safe, joyful, and encouraging environment for children of all abilities. Inclusion is not a side program — it is central to our mission.
Explore the Sunday Center Program
Inclusion in Action:
- Weekly Adaptive Sessions — sports tailored to different abilities
- Role Model Inspiration — guest of honor Ranveer Saini , Special Olympics Gold Medalist
- Confidence & Social Belonging — building peer connection through play
Global Knowledge, Local Impact
🌍 Global Mentorship & Elite Coaching
We bridge the gap between grassroots potential and global excellence by integrating international professional standards into our curriculum. Our visiting experts bring decades of experience from the world’s most competitive leagues to mentor our athletes and local coaching staff.
Distinguished International Mentors:
- Guillaume Soares (France) — Assistant Basketball Coach at JAV Basket (JA Vichy). Hailing from Nice, he brings experience from the French professional leagues (Pro B & SOPCC), focusing on high-level tactical development.
- Benjamin Bari (France) — Professional Coach with deep roots in the French basketball system, specialized in technical skill acquisition and professional player pathways.
- Naoufal Uariachi (Morocco) — Former Head Coach of the Morocco Men’s National Team; a FIBA-level strategist who led his nation through the AfroBasket Qualifiers.
- Hassan El Saddique (USA/Argentina) — Founder of All Dream Sports, specializing in youth scouting and international athletic development.
- Coach Malkom (Uganda/Rwanda) — Veteran of African Division 1 leagues, providing a roadmap for competitive resilience and physical literacy.
These international exchanges elevate our training standards, ensuring that every child in our program receives a world-class athletic foundation.
Our Impact at a Glance
Real Lives • Real Stats
Every number tells a story of access gained, confidence built, and opportunity opened through sport. Together, they strengthen life skills, physical literacy, global exposure, and social inclusion.
50+
Children Supported
Access to Structured Sport Programs
3
Partner Homes & Inclusion Centers
Orphanages, NGOs & Special Needs Programs
500+
Training Sessions
Consistent Weekly Coaching Delivered
5+
International Coaches
Global Mentorship & Elite Exposure
Every Journey Deserves Support
Beyond the Court • Into the Classroom
While sport is our primary vehicle for change, our commitment to a child’s future extends beyond the court. Through our Educational Support pillar, we ensure that financial hardship does not interrupt access to consistent, quality schooling.
Meet Rishika
With consistent support, Rishika successfully completed her 5th-grade examinations with a 77% aggregate, securing a 1st Division. We continue to support her educational journey with a focus on stability, continuity, and long-term opportunity.
Meet Bithi
Her efforts resulted in a 1st Division (70.5%) in her 4th-grade examinations, leading to her successful promotion to Class 5. Her journey reflects how timely educational support can protect and strengthen a child’s future.
Support education where it matters most
Change a Life Today
These stories reflect our long-term commitment to ensuring that no child’s education is interrupted by financial hardship.
Will you help us enable education for more children like Rishika and Bithi?