The Philippines Play
July 09 2008
As part of the three-year “Nike Gives Hope ” project, Nike Philippines partnered with the Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps sexually and physically abused children in the Philippines.
From 2004 to 2007, Nike worked to better the lives of children at the Hope Foundation center in Laguna through facility improvements, employee volunteers and product donations. Before Nike built the center's new basketball court, there were no facilities to accommodate a sports program. Now, the kids have new equipment and apparel, participated in a mini-sports tournament day and visited with retired Filipino Basketball star, Alvin Patrimonio.
Now, in partnership with the KIDS Foundation, Nike's “Out of the Streets, Into the Courts” program has taken on a new three-year youth-oriented project with The Eliseo Belen School in Pampanga, Philippines.
A new basketball court from Nike Philippines is slated for construction this year. The new court will allow the school to start a sports program for the elementary school. As part of the program Kobe Bryant met with 20 kids from the Eliseo Belen Elementary School in 2007. While he was there, Kobe signed the backboards for the court as something to remember him by.
From 2004 to 2007, Nike worked to better the lives of children at the Hope Foundation center in Laguna through facility improvements, employee volunteers and product donations. Before Nike built the center's new basketball court, there were no facilities to accommodate a sports program. Now, the kids have new equipment and apparel, participated in a mini-sports tournament day and visited with retired Filipino Basketball star, Alvin Patrimonio.
Now, in partnership with the KIDS Foundation, Nike's “Out of the Streets, Into the Courts” program has taken on a new three-year youth-oriented project with The Eliseo Belen School in Pampanga, Philippines.
A new basketball court from Nike Philippines is slated for construction this year. The new court will allow the school to start a sports program for the elementary school. As part of the program Kobe Bryant met with 20 kids from the Eliseo Belen Elementary School in 2007. While he was there, Kobe signed the backboards for the court as something to remember him by.