Youth Community Clubhouse

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Youth Community Clubhouse

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Hospitality + Sport ›

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

Hoops for Hope (H4H) fosters development in highly disadvantaged communities across Zimbabwe and South Africa. Generous donations of sneakers, cleats, uniforms and balls from around the United States and Canada arrive in 20 foot and 40 foot shipping containers, crossing vast oceans and retiring in the region. Creating H4H Youth Community Clubhouses from these retired shipping containers will allow H4H to better provide services by means of community proximity and identity for the youth supported. Each youth center will be filled with computers, books, balls, MVP peer education coaches and serve their local community with Hoops 4 Hope, Soccer 4 Hope and Chess 4 Hope programs.
Currently H4H runs their operations out of one office in the center of Cape Town, South Africa, and have a training center in the middle of Harare, Zimbabwe. All the employees come into the office to train and do their work on computers. They then have to get back into the townships where the programs are. They spend an average of 1 to 2 hours getting into town in the morning and then do it again to race back out to the townships. Currently, there exists only one court per community of 8 schools H4H reaches out to, and there is no central facility where the youth can come to collectively engage in the activities and programs offered. Hence, its ideal to begin with constructing one prototype Youth Community Center within one community, placed within the safe confines of a parenting school and close to the basketball court or soccer field.
The Youth Community Center will be a low cost, safe, secured, and an easily replicable asset for the organization.
It will be a high tech, fully refurbished, environmentally responsible, kid savvy, and secure design utilizing local labor. It will incorporate an energy harnessing device into the structure so as to generate all the energy the clubhouse will use on site. The Youth Community Clubhouses will be networked with each other and to H4H's supporters across the globe by internet. By communicating, learning and sharing, each Youth Community Clubhouse will empower many Africans who traditionally have no access to technology. The teams will be able to finally share information around youth topics, sports, and life saving issues and access to computers.
Through this simple and cost effective structure, the H4H Youth Community Clubhouse will improve the quality of their important community programs by giving a physical space to coordinate and educate.
Prototype is in the fabrication process.